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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tmpfs accounting (was: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:44:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C42FCD4.90209@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C35F8B2.98763627@sltnet.lk> <a181kp$tl4$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <m3pu4daysi.fsf_-_@linux.local>

Christoph Rohland wrote:

> 
> I would not like to add the real size without a bigger goal (I would
> not see a problem with a fake size).
> 


It defeats the filesystem size limit, and makes it possible to an 
unprivileged user to consume unlimited amounts of kernel memory.

	-hpa


      reply	other threads:[~2002-01-14 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-04 18:47 losetuping files in tmpfs fails? Ishan Oshadi Jayawardena
2002-01-05 23:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-14 12:43   ` tmpfs accounting (was: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?) Christoph Rohland
2002-01-14 15:44     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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