[Bug 214665] security bug:using "truncate" bypass disk quotas limit

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214665

Theodore Tso (tytso@mit.edu) changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Theodore Tso (tytso@mit.edu) ---
This is not a bug, but rather things working as expected.   This is because
truncate does not actually allocate any disk blocks.   It merely sets the
i_size of the inode to be the specified quantity.   If i_size is less than
where blocks currently are allocated and assigned to the inode at those logical
offsets, then those blocks will be deallocated.   But truncate never allocates
any additional data blocks.

Try running "du id", and see how much disk space the file takes.  Or try using
"ls -s", which will show the disk space used by the file --- which is different
from the size of the file.   If this puzzles you, look up the definition of
"sparse file".

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