atom feed30 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-securityRe: disk quota overriding
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Dmitry ValdovMar 17, 1999 3:42 am 
Jay TribickMar 17, 1999 3:49 am 
Fernando SchapachnikMar 17, 1999 3:50 am 
Dmitry ValdovMar 17, 1999 3:52 am 
Dmitry ValdovMar 17, 1999 3:55 am 
Dmitry ValdovMar 17, 1999 4:36 am 
Ladavac MarinoMar 17, 1999 5:37 am 
Mikhail TeterinMar 17, 1999 5:43 am 
Dmitry ValdovMar 17, 1999 5:47 am 
Jon HamiltonMar 17, 1999 6:41 am 
Michael RichardsMar 17, 1999 6:57 am 
Dan TsoMar 17, 1999 7:18 am 
James WyattMar 17, 1999 9:00 am 
James WyattMar 17, 1999 9:08 am 
Daniel C. SobralMar 17, 1999 10:00 am 
Daniel C. SobralMar 17, 1999 10:02 am 
mi...@seidata.comMar 17, 1999 12:14 pm 
David ScheidtMar 17, 1999 3:00 pm 
David H. BrierleyMar 17, 1999 4:59 pm 
Rico PajarolaMar 17, 1999 7:00 pm 
Andrew McNaughtonMar 18, 1999 4:43 am 
Daniel C. SobralMar 18, 1999 5:58 am 
Robert WatsonMar 18, 1999 6:23 am 
Timothy R. PlattMar 18, 1999 6:54 am 
Zahemszky GaborMar 18, 1999 7:55 am 
James WyattMar 18, 1999 8:00 am 
sth...@nethelp.noMar 18, 1999 9:11 am 
James WyattMar 18, 1999 9:53 am 
Jon HamiltonMar 18, 1999 10:13 pm 
Julian AssangeMar 24, 1999 10:34 pm 
Subject:Re: disk quota overriding
From:James Wyatt (jwy@RWSystems.net)
Date:Mar 17, 1999 9:00:43 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-security

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Fernando Schapachnik wrote:

Are you aware that, due to nature of hardlinks the only extra space is same that for an empty file? Due to this, how many empty files do you think it takes to eat the whole space of / ?

They take *less* space than an empty file, just the directory entry. You can see how muchh by looking at the size of the '.' grow when you add one. An empty file still takes an inode, as an 'ls -li [filename]' will show.

Now a small amount of anything multiplied by a large number can amount to something. If you have a small root, I can see where you could overwhelm it. It will also take longer and longer to ann the links and lookups in /tmp will take forever.

Dmitry Valdov wrote:

Because /tmp directory usually owned by root that why quotas has no effect. *Directory* size of /tmp can be grown up to available space on / filesystem.

My favorite way is a /tmp filesystem. It solves stability problems unrelated to quotas as well. Same goes for /home if you have real users on your system (not just a server) - Jy@

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