interesting feature on AMIX..

[Tim Olson]

In article <13706 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aru at mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man) writes:
| I was looking through the docs about formatting floppies and stuff, and right
| before it they were talking about mounting filesystems.  On the Amiga, this
| means that we could mount a file system on the floppy, and this would definitely
| be a selling point for universities and educational facilities because you would
| be able to mount a filesystem for a user and that user can take his file system
| home with him.  (hey, that would take care of quota problems!!)  Solve a lot of
| problem in terms of disk usage on the system.  

File systems should only be mountable by root.  Allowing a user to
mount a floppy would be a big security hole.

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