Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 May 2002 15:11:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ext2 and ext3 block reservations can be bypassed |
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On Tue, 14 May 2002, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> If the root file system is ext2, it does become a security issue since > currently active logs will continue to record log entries until the
You are kidding. First of all, what kind of idiot has /var on root? What next - /var/spool/mail on the same filesystem, so that mailbombing root (or just a mail loop) could screw you over?
What's more, if you can't deal with overflowing /var/log, you are screwed - making syslogd to write something in log is _not_ hard.
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