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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 Well, you could whitelist the tool in sudoers. This would let LLMs use it too.

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

Real men run as root:

https://www.garyshood.com/root/

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

#22

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> 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?

Has anyone run a study on how long you can run an agent as root before irreparable damage is done to the VM? A sort of gambler's ruin for the YOLO LLM Age.

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

#23

Dumb title. It works by reading the block device in /dev directly, wouldn't it also work on an HDD, flash drive or a memory card?

I assume the author just meant SSD as a synonym for "main internal disk", since that is usually an SSD these days.

yeah I was just picking up an interesting the title for hn, you should read a README to get the actual understanding of project

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

#24

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

Has anyone run a study on how long you can run an agent as root before irreparable damage is done to the VM? A sort of gambler's ruin for the YOLO LLM Age.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/screw-it-lets-make-clau...

For me, it took a bit over six weeks of Claude running unattended perpetually.

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

#27

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

Has anyone run a study on how long you can run an agent as root before irreparable damage is done to the VM? A sort of gambler's ruin for the YOLO LLM Age.

I gave Sonnet 4.6 root access to my Android via adb and it wrote frida scripts to help me recover the encryption keys from SwiftBackup

Also gave Opus 4.6 access to a Kubernetes container and it was able to use pyrasite (a Python replacement that attached to a running process with gdb) to debug a "memory leak" in Python

I don't think I'd let them run unattended on anything I care about especially if there weren't backups, but they've never tried to break anything while supervised.

Usually it's significantly faster and more accurate to give the LLM/harness access to the thing to debug then to try to copy/paste back and forth.

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

When they can't run sudo, they'll user docker to give themselves root. https://twitter.com/i/status/2060746160558543217

That's why everyone should use rootless Podman. It doesn't need anything apart from subuid/subgid binaries.

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

>clankers can not run sudo commands

Do you mean the harnesses prevent it? Or it can't type a password or something?

I've been running mine as root on a disposable VPS. (Finally I have a dedicated linux guy!)

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has anyone run a study on how long you can run an agent as root before irreparable damage is done to the VM? A sort of gambler's ruin for the YOLO LLM Age.

I gave Sonnet 4.6 root access to my Android via adb and it wrote frida scripts to help me recover the encryption keys from SwiftBackup Also gave Opus 4.6 access to a Kubernetes container and it was able to use pyrasite (a Python replacement that attached to a running process with gdb) to debug a "memory leak" in Python I don't think I'd let them run unattended on anything I care about especially if there weren't back…

It's been a while but last year I'd see posts like "Claude nuked my homedir / entire drive" on a regular basis. I don't know if they fixed that (or just made it very rare).
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