Re: secure execution of drivers

[Dani <ropstrip@gmail.com>]

when the driver fault, I was in the midst of rebuilding the system and 
had multiple virtual machines running. The result was that reiserfs 
which completely destroyed. when it had recovered more files on 
/LOST+FOUND than in the rest of the system ... in short, a disaster. I 
hope to find some solution for when the driver fail again


> When the date was Thursday 20 November 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>   
> > * Michael Iatrou:
> >     
> > > When the date was Wednesday 19 November 2008, Dani d wrote:
> > >       
> > > > hello everybody.
> > > >    I recently had a problem with drivers of my pc. The driver of the
> > > > wifi sometimes it hung and the last time it broke my entire reiserfs
> > > > file system and badly I've been able to recover. I would like to know
> > > > if there is any way to run the drivers on some sort of secure
> > > > environment so that it fails or is compromised not affect the rest of
> > > > the system
> > > >         
> > > No, there isn't (yet).
> > >       
> > However, there are less dynamic file systems for which recovery will
> > be somewhat easier.
> >     
>
> This is indeed the truth, but since data integrity cannot be assured under 
> such circumstances, I couldn't sleep better at night thinking "Well, my 
> ext3 undergone another corruption, but at least I don't have to rebuild 
> that awful B-tree" :>
>
>