Re: [PATCH] 2.3.34/pre-2.3.35-3 ramdisk/initrd NOT as a
Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:03:40 +0000
>First of all, when I make a filesystem on a block device I don't modify
>every single block of that device so it is perfectly possible to create a
>64M ext2 filesystem on a ramdisk on a 48M physical RAM machine.
>
>Now, the root mounts it somewhere and creates a subdirectory to which a
>non-privileged user can write so a non-privileged user starts creating
>files in it and easily causes out of memory bringing the box down, fscking
>all filesystems etc etc.
"Don't do that, then".
p.
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