fedora 8 hacked?

[Bill Davidsen]

tom lee wrote:
> 2008/4/25 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>:
> 
>> Your root filesystem probably got corrupted. When the kernel detects
>> filesystem corruption, the partition usually gets remounted read-only.
>>
>> Run "shutdown -r -F now". This will reboot and refsck your root partition.
> 
> I tried "reboot" before and it got nput/output error. has to power off
> and on machine for rebooting.
> right now, the machien is in use and I cannot shut it down for
> testing. maybe later.
> 
> it looks that it renders all partition as read-only. I don't like such
> a design. if it crashes, let it crash. why remounting as read-only to
> play smart?  it is better to reboot with "showdown -r -F now" right
> away
> rather than getting into such a dumb read-only stage that nobody knows
> that it has something wrong right away. it took one day to know that
> this OS has the problem.
> 
>>From this perspective, I  think microsoft way of crasing is a better
> design. at least you know some wrong right away and reboot the
> computer automatically can get it fixed.
> 
Microsoft gives a warning about corruption before crashing. A Big 
"Windows" splash screen corruption warning come up just at boot.

Oh, you meant filesystem corruption, not the vendor. Ignore.


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