Bonehead Move, noexec

[Andy Green]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:

Hi Ulrich -

> Try that on a rawhide system.  There was a kernel bad which Linus
> finally fixed in the 2.6.19 (or .20?) kernels.

It isn't "fixed" on the current FC6 2.6.19 kernel FWIW.

> Partitions are terribly useful.  There several useful mount flags:
> 
>   noatime, noexec, nodev, nosuid
...
> If anything, people should use more partitions, not less.

Why should fracturing your storage like a broken mirror have anything to 
do with application of what are basically ACLs.  Why is smashing the 
mirror into more smaller pieces any kind of good idea.  Partitions in 
the sense of reserving chunks of storage can only mean that you 
mismanage your storage in one section or another and run short.  The 
only situation that is optimal is everything sharing a single 
allocation.  It seems to me it is another "bad" that in order to get the 
granular ACL benefits you mention, for some reason you currently have to 
use a stupid static reservation scheme.

-Andy