On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 17:59 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:21:49PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Can anyone see an issue (security etc) with doing that? For traditional
> optical media it will get mounted 'ro' anyway.
CD-RW erasure comes under ro v rw and SG_IO rights to go around the back
of a file system. I think it all depends on your trust model for the
system which goes back to stuff filed for FC4 so the user can specify that.
Hey, aren't you talking about rw access to the device node, say /dev/hdc
or /dev/cdwriter? The console user already got these rw rights otherwise
e.g. nautilus-cd-burner wouldn't be very useful.
For instance, today I may mount a filesystem from a CD-RW and then erase
the disc at the same time (which should be fixed by putting some brains
into the CD burning/erasing software; e.g. check if (parts of) the disc
is already mounted; maybe it's already there, dunno).
I've no strong opinion either way but if it is changed in an
update it
needs good documenting and might also need a kernel detail fixing
Can you clarify what kernel fixing is needed?
It is my understanding that only DVD-RAM drives with DVD-RAM media will
allow one to mount a filesystem rw (for optical drives) - is this
correct?
Thanks,
David