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From: "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@noris.de>
Subject: Re: Reserved Blocks
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:55:13 +0200
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To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
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Hi,

Oleg Drokin:
> That's right. But the program that writes into that file is setuid program.
> And blocks are allocated by that setuid program.

Blocks (possibly more than one) may also be allocated by opening the file,
especially if it happens to have a long name.

If you want limits, use quotas. They may not be perfect, but at least they
work.  ;-)

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