From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com [216.82.250.247]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451B16B0069 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 02:31:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 02:31:27 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas Message-ID: <20111107073127.GA7410@infradead.org> References: <1320614101.3226.5.camel@offbook> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1320614101.3226.5.camel@offbook> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Hugh Dickins , Lennart Poettering , Andrew Morton , lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:15:01PM -0300, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > From: Davidlohr Bueso > > This patch adds a new RLIMIT_TMPFSQUOTA resource limit to restrict an individual user's quota across all mounted tmpfs filesystems. > It's well known that a user can easily fill up commonly used directories (like /tmp, /dev/shm) causing programs to break through DoS. Please jyst implement the normal user/group quota interfaces we use for other filesystem. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org