Filesystem drivers in Rust

Posted Dec 15, 2025 12:57 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Filesystem drivers in Rust by pizza
Parent article: The state of the kernel Rust experiment

If the filesystem is damaged, all bets are off anyway - the damage may extend to the point where the data is irrecoverable. Thus, the contents of the damaged filesystem are already not part of "service" in a security sense, since you've already lost them.

As a quality of implementation matter, being able to retrieve as much data as possible from a damaged filesystem is nice, but it shouldn't affect availability of the system as a whole, only that one filesystem.