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Add a new "untrusted" option to the mount command. Its purpose

Description

Add a new "untrusted" option to the mount command. Its purpose
is to notify the kernel that the file system is untrusted and it
should use more extensive checks on the file-system's metadata
before using it. This option is intended to be used when mounting
file systems from untrusted media such as USB memory sticks or other
externally-provided media.

It will initially be used by the UFS/FFS file system, but should
likely be expanded to be used by other file systems that may appear
on external media like msdosfs, exfat, and ext2fs.

Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20786

Details

Provenance
mckusickAuthored on
Reviewer
kib
Differential Revision
D20786: Add option "untrusted" to mount(8)
Parents
rS349588: arm64: efi: Map memory IO region as device
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