Re: ext3 corruption

[Molle Bestefich]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> To be fair, there are plenty of other dangerous things that you can do
> with Windows that don't have warning messages pop-up.  And using the
> loop driver is of a complexity which is higher than what you would
> expect of a typical Windows user.  You might as well complain that
> Linux doesn't give a warning message when you run some command like
> "rm -rf /", or "dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda".  I'm sure there are
> similar commands (probably involving regedit :-) that are just as
> dangerous from the Windows cmd.exe window.....

Hardly comparable..

"rm", "dd if=/dev/null", "format c:" is meant to nuke your harddrive.
The loop driver just does it as a nasty side effect of a stinky
implementation.
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