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

▲ F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel(github.com)

3 points by neogoose 13 hours ago | 4 comments

▲ neogoose 13 hours ago | parent [-]

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

▲ goodmythical 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>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?

	▲	dlcarrier 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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'.

▲ fragmede 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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