Public bug reported:
I just netbooted my laptop from a freshly installed edubuntu server
(from the i386 dvd 20070416). This laptop contains a hibernated
install.
I see when I log in that the edubuntu client has mounted the filesystems
of my hibernated setup. This is deeply bad and wrong: if I were now to
resume the hibernated install (as a naive user would be likely to do)
then hideous filesystem corruption results (I have had this once before
and am now ultra-paranoid about it). As it is I still have to force-no-
resume the hibernated install on next boot, effectively crashing the
machine.
AFAICT the only viable approach here is not to auto-mount any filesystem
which is dirty. If the filesystem is dirty it should not be automounted
and instead we should have an icon on the desktop where you can ask for
it to be (optionally fscked) and mounted.
You may say "don't use a machine with a hibernated install as an
edubuntu client". Firstly, I don't think this is a viable answer since
often people want to try out or demonstrate something, and the machine
they have is one which has hibernated setups (or one which they think
they can "put on ice" for this test). Secondly, if this restriction is
to be imposed it ought to be checked in software since the visibility of
the problem is so low and the consequences are so severe.
** Affects: ltspfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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auto filesystem mounting can cause hideous data loss
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107518
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