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From: "Jakob Østergaard" <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ext2 and ext3 block reservations can be bypassed
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 21:02:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020512210202.B17334@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020512103432.A24018@eskimo.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0205121412160.25791-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <20020512113730.A24085@eskimo.com>

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 11:37:30AM -0700, Elladan wrote:
...
Ok, thanks for the explanation earlier in the thread. I was mistaken.

> 
> Regardless of whether it's a good thing to depend on security-wise, it
> is a problem to have something that appears to be a security feature
> which doesn't actually work.
...
> Having unsupported security features is typically a bad idea.

I guess the point is that it is not a security feature.

The 5% default is good for ext2, since the filesystem will get heavily
fragmented if you fill it up more than ~95%.  So it is a convenience
feature.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-12 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-12 16:23 [RFC] ext2 and ext3 block reservations can be bypassed Kasper Dupont
2002-05-12 16:42 ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-05-12 17:34   ` Elladan
2002-05-12 18:15     ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-12 18:37       ` Elladan
2002-05-12 19:02         ` Jakob Østergaard [this message]
2002-05-12 19:04           ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-13 17:09         ` Horst von Brand
2002-05-13 17:52           ` Elladan
2002-05-13 17:57             ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-14 16:22               ` Elladan
2002-05-14 16:55                 ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-14 17:47                   ` Elladan
2002-05-14 18:51                     ` Kasper Dupont
2002-05-15 19:48                 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-15 20:29                   ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 15:40           ` Kasper Dupont
2002-05-14 15:56             ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-14 18:25               ` Kasper Dupont
     [not found] <791836807@toto.iv>
2002-05-12 22:04 ` Peter Chubb
2002-05-12 22:53   ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-13  4:22     ` Kasper Dupont
2002-05-13  4:51       ` Elladan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-14 17:53 Jesse Pollard
2002-05-14 18:23 ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-14 19:11 ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-14 18:00 Jesse Pollard
2002-05-14 18:07 Jesse Pollard
2002-05-14 18:54 Jesse Pollard
2002-05-14 19:04 ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-14 19:55 ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-14 19:29 Jesse Pollard

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