I think we shouldn't take any particular steps to _disallow_ symlinks. symlinks are pretty standard on unix, and unix admins like to use them when they want to. When I make a symlink to something and a program doesn't understand how to deal with it, I consider it fundamentally a bug, and often times I stop using such buggy software.
That being said - we need to _add_ stuff into drizzle to let people solve the fundamental problem without needing them. But please don't use O_NOSYMLINK. It's just mean. Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > I think it's still incredibly useful to be able to move stuff around > with symlinks. > > Until we're all runnning ZFS by default, I think the transparency of > MyISAM's data storage (and other engines that do the same) is greatly > appreciated in times of space crisis, data migration, and so on. > > That said, I wouldn't try to convince anyone to make a *new* engine > symlink friendly if it takes much extra effort. > > Jeremy > > On 10/19/08, *Brian Aker* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Hi! > > Historically folks have been able to control the directory of > datafiles and indexfiles for MyISAM. They have also been able to > "symlink" file around in the directories. Now this has opened up a > can of worms in the past, but the security issues around it have not > come up in recent time. > > Seeing how modern disks are configured is this something we should > be supporting in the future? Does it still make sense? > > I am leaning toward "no" but it would be nice to hear from > deployment folks if this matters. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org <http://tangent.org> > Seattle, Washington > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > _______________________________________________________ > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > <https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > <https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
