Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:50:21 -0800 | From | Steve VanDevender <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) |
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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.
Linking foo multiple times won't increase user1's quota proportionately; user2 at least has to link many different files from user1.
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