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yjftsjthsd-h
on March 9, 2025
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Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust
> If you have a file on disk (eg: a VM's disk) mdadm will refuse to show metadata, requiring root to do so.
If that's an artificial limitation, surely it should be easy to fix?
blueflow
on March 9, 2025
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Did the previous developers put it there for fun? Probably not.
nine_k
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The previous developers might have written it at the time when VM disk RAID images were not a consideration. (Apparently it was Linux 3.0, 2011.)
yjftsjthsd-h
on March 9, 2025
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But even then, the device nodes should be protected by file ownership+permissions; why does the tool do its own check?
noja
on March 10, 2025
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Chesterton’s fence. Ask the developer.
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If that's an artificial limitation, surely it should be easy to fix?