Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHES] iov_iter.c rewrite

From: Theodore Ts'o <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 17:14:01 -0500

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:23:58PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > I guess you're running it in a VM, but still.. Doing random system
> > calls as root sounds like a bad bad idea.
> 
> I'm doing this for a long time and didn't see any problem bigger than qemu
> crash[1]. ;)
> 
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/194845/

If you use something like this:

   -drive file=root_fs.img,if=virtio,snapshot=on

running trinity as root should be quite safe in a VM.  :-)

		   	       	  	- Ted