[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks

[Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/23/2010 01:50 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Michal Novotny writes ("Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks"):
>    
> > Why do you think so, Ian? This follows the IDE specifications to
> > disallow read-only IDE disks since the specs doesn't support IDE
> > read-only disks. The only read-only device being supported by IDE specs
> > is the CD-ROM device.
> >      
> The administrator should be free to violate the IDE specification if
> the IDE specification conflicts with their security goals.
>
> Ian.
>    
Are you saying that it's OK for administrators to violate the IDE specs 
and do it the way that is should never be done since this way it's not 
working on bare-metal systems ? This is the breach and it shouldn't be 
done this way so why to allow it? Shouldn't we care the code complies 
with the specifications to have it done the right way?
Michal

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Michal Novotny<minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat


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