Great jffs2 speedup

[Ferenc Havasi]

Jörn Engel wrote:

>On Thu, 29 September 2005 13:34:44 +0200, Ferenc Havasi wrote:
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>>Maybe I don't understand something. How makes CS possible DoS attacks?
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>while true; do mount mtd0 /mnt -t jffs2; umount /mnt; done
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>Run this for about a day, and the first block will be exhausted.  I'm
>not saying this is easy for a malicious attacker, but certainly
>possible.
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Yes, it is true. But if an attacker already has the permission to do it,
I think he has many simpler and faster way to crash the system. :)

Ferenc