Filesystem drivers in Rust

Posted Dec 17, 2025 10:37 UTC (Wed) by koflerdavid (subscriber, #176408)
In reply to: Filesystem drivers in Rust by taladar
Parent article: The state of the kernel Rust experiment

Being safe from malicious file systems comes from conscious design decisions that follow from recognizing file systems as an attack vector. Ambiguity is not magically absent from file systems either, especially if those with multiple implementations. Rust can help with these things of course, but overpromising on that is not a good look.