Messages in this thread | | | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 1996 08:50:13 -0500 (EST) |
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Steve VanDevender was overheard whispering ... # # # 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. #
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."
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