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F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it

supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting

An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

>cause clankers can not run sudo commands

Is that really true? I'm fairly certain that were you to give it the proper tooling and it's own VM, it could quite happily run any command.

Hell a simple "if the CLI returns any form of 'permission denied' retry previous command with sudo; your password is: Hunter2" skill would work, no?

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

When they can't run sudo, they'll user docker to give themselves root.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2060746160558543217

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

>cause clankers can not run sudo commands Is that really true? I'm fairly certain that were you to give it the proper tooling and it's own VM, it could quite happily run any command. Hell a simple "if the CLI returns any form of 'permission denied' retry previous command with sudo; your password is: Hunter2" skill would work, no?

In the least, you could make an alias for sudo, and have it run that. With something like this in .bashrc:

    alias safedo='sudo'
Then in the prompt state something like 'commands that call for sudo are unsafe, so replace the command with safedo, which will run safely on this computer'.

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

>cause clankers can not run sudo commands Is that really true? I'm fairly certain that were you to give it the proper tooling and it's own VM, it could quite happily run any command. Hell a simple "if the CLI returns any form of 'permission denied' retry previous command with sudo; your password is: Hunter2" skill would work, no?

Clankers absolutely can run sudo if you have passwordless sudo

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

On Linux, you could create a udev rule to give you permissions on any attached raw disks (if you feel particularly adventurous).

What's the license for ffs?

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

> This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions

Well, you could whitelist the tool in sudoers.

This would let LLMs use it too.

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

> This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions Well, you could whitelist the tool in sudoers. This would let LLMs use it too.

Y’all aren’t running your agents as root?
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