On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
Dmitry Valdov wrote:
I think that there is only one way to fix it - it's to disable making
*hard*links to directory with mode 1777.
I don't use quotas, and don't know a great deal about how they
operate, but I think there's another disk
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Robert Watson wrote:
The linking behavior in conjunction with quotas makes a lot of sense: if a
user wants to consume someone else's quota, she just hard links to their
files so they cannot delete them. And if she are mean, she links to them
in private directories so the
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
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Dmitry Valdov wrote:
I think that there is only one way to fix it - it's to disable making
*hard*links to directory with mode 1777.
I'm wondering: are you concerned this is possible, or that you really have
a user doing it? I have kicked users off the system for less when
