>
> Regardless of whether it's a good thing to depend on security-wise, it
> is a problem to have something that appears to be a security feature
> which doesn't actually work.
...
> Having unsupported security features is typically a bad idea.
I guess the point is that it is not a security feature.
The 5% default is good for ext2, since the filesystem will get heavily
fragmented if you fill it up more than ~95%. So it is a convenience
feature.
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