Re: Proposal: restrict link(2)
Nicholas J. Leon (lists-nicholas@binary9.net)
Fri, 20 Dec 1996 08:50:13 -0500 (EST)
Steve VanDevender was overheard whispering ...
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# Nicholas J. Leon writes:
# > Your example doesn't demostrate that if:
# >
# > user1 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1k count=1k
# > # repquota -a | grep user1
# > user1 -- 1029 0 0 1 0 0
# > user2 $ ln ~user1/foo ~/bar
# > user1 $ rm foo
# > # repquota -a | grep user1
# > user1 -- 1029 0 0 1 0 0
# >
# > at this point the quota's for user1 still show the usage, as they
# > should considering the blocks are still allocated. So user2 could fill
# > user1's quotas by hard linking foo as many times as needed.
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# Linking foo multiple times won't increase user1's quota proportionately;
# user2 at least has to link many different files from user1.
#
Yeah... :( I know. My fingers flew faster than my brain in the above
example. What I *really* meant to say was "So user2 could fill user1's
quotas by hard linking as many files as needed."
N!
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