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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Reserved Blocks
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:02:26 +0400
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To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de>
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Hello!

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:55:13AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> 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,

I'd agree if you replace "opening" with "creating".

> especially if it happens to have a long name.

It cannot be longer than 255 bytes anyway.

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

That's true ;)

Bye,
    Oleg