Filesystem drivers in Rust
Filesystem drivers in Rust
Posted Dec 14, 2025 22:23 UTC (Sun) by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962)In reply to: No resistance to change? by riking
Parent article: The state of the kernel Rust experiment
I am looking forward to having more filesystem drivers in Rust. This would solve the "user mounts malicious filesystem" problem to a certain extent (no pun intended). Sure, denial of service would still be possible, but having no code execution bugs in a filesystem driver is a big plus in my book.
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