Re: [patch] fix for pagecache fs corruption (2.3.15-pre2) [Re:

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:03:33 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I can even lockdown cache-page pages in memory if I start using a ramdisk
> device.

If people give non-root users write access to the ramdisk device, then
there is nothing the kernel can do. Administrative stupidity is not
curable, I think.

Linus

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