Re: tmpfs accounting (was: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:44:20 -0800


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

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