Jeff Mahoney composed on 2019-01-30 12:20 (UTC-0500):
there are a number of file systems that are uncommon, poorly maintained, and contain security issues
Is this theoretical, or real? IOW, is "poorly maintained" a label applied because of absence of "maintenance" that is a result absence of changes in a filesystem that was fully mature 20-30 years ago and thus needs no maintenance? Are the "security issues" known, or merely theoretical? If they are so little used, what real likelihood is there any attempt to use for an attack might manifest?
that aren't worth investing the time in fixing. We can reduce the attack surface for most users by declining to load the modules for those file systems automatically. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.
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