Linux 6.19 Will Better Deal With Corrupt Minix File-Systems (www.phoronix.com)

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For anyone dealing with Minix file-systems still for this nearly 40 year old creation, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is expected to bring some fixes to the Minix driver for better handling corrupted file-system images.

Syzbot has uncovered some corruption bugs within the Linux kernel's Minix file-system driver. When trying to mount and deal with corrupted Minix file-systems, some problems were uncovered that are now being addressed to be able to report said corruption and fixing the underlying bugs detected.

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[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

This FS should probably be moved to user space.

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Fuse all the time would not be great for performance ...then again...does anyone care with minix?

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

That's the idea, minix was a 1980s thing that still has some legacy support.

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