Messages in this thread |  | | From | Snow Cat <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:56:45 -0800 (PST) |
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Albert Cahalan once wrote: > > From: Snow Cat <snowcat@netgate.net> (me) > > > > > Hard links are pretty useful for sharing large files. When I was in > > university, I used to make links to large programs compiled by other > > users - like gdb, irc, etc. In this way it didn't take any additional > > disk space and if the owner deleted the program later, I still had a > > copy. > > If the owner deleted the program because they ran out of disk quota, > you made sure that _they_ still owned a copy. You did not have a copy. > > I'd say this is a reason to restrict link() to the file owner.
Well, on THAT system we had ~400 accounts on a 300M paritition. Even with 1M quota, one was more likely to run out of physical disk space.
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