Systemd/Microsoft Effort For A Global Counter On Block/Disk Changes Coming To Linux 5.15

[rastersoft]

And a year from now... "Discovered side channel attack involving block disk changes counters. The recommendation is to disable them".

[jacob]

Oh no... Yet another article with both Microsoft and systemd in the same sentence... This might be entertaining!

The whine squad is too shocked to even report for duty

[waxhead]

Oh no... Yet another article with both Microsoft and systemd in the same sentence... This might be entertaining!

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Systemd/Microsoft Effort For A Global Counter On Block/Disk Changes Coming To Linux 5.15

Last month I wrote about a possible global counter for block/disk changes on Linux being discussed by Microsoft and systemd developers to better track changes via a system-wide monotonically increasing number as an alternative to the existing per-disk tracking. That functionality is now queued up as part of the block subsystem changes ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window in a few weeks...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-Disk-Seq-No