netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCHES] iov

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Message-ID: <20141208221401.GA4991@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:14:01 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHES] iov_iter.c rewrite

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:23:58PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > I guess you're running it in a VM, but still.. Doing random system
> > calls as root sounds like a bad bad idea.
> 
> I'm doing this for a long time and didn't see any problem bigger than qemu
> crash[1]. ;)
> 
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/194845/

If you use something like this:

   -drive file=root_fs.img,if=virtio,snapshot=on

running trinity as root should be quite safe in a VM.  :-)

		   	       	  	- Ted
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