Filesystem drivers in Rust

Posted Dec 16, 2025 2:09 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Filesystem drivers in Rust by pizza
Parent article: The state of the kernel Rust experiment

Linux has a number of filesystems that can deal properly with a "merely damaged" (corrupted filesystem). A maliciously corrupted filesystem will have correct metadata checksums, and is much harder to detect. There is a qualitative difference.