On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 10:56 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 09:00:39AM +0000, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 08:53 +0000, Tixy wrote: > > > Perhaps your USB stick is formatted with exFAT (which only gained > > > kernel support this year) and me and Celejar are using older > > > FAT/VFAT/FAT32 (I am). That would explain our different > > > experiences > > > with fuse getting involved. > > > > I just saw from you other replies that you're on Debian unstable, > > so > > your kernel does have exFAT support. There must be something more > > complicated going on then for your system to chose to use fuse to > > mount > > the USB stick. > > I think the tencency is to mount untrusted file systems over FUSE, > due to the realisation that file system code wasn't designed with > malicious file system images in mind (remember? the time that code > got written, you had one hard disk firmly screwed into your beige > box computer), and on the hope that something exploding in user > space might be less devastating that having it explode in kernel > space...
I can see there is good reasoning in that, perhaps that reasoning has been implemented by the components in Debian Bullseye. Does seem a little perverse though if it should be implemented just after Linux gains an exFAT kernel driver, a filesystem that only really exists for interoperability between devices (i.e. those that will be removable media). -- Tixy
