Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.3.34/pre-2.3.35-3 ramdisk/initrd NOT as a | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:03:40 +0000 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>First of all, when I make a filesystem on a block device I don't modify >every single block of that device so it is perfectly possible to create a >64M ext2 filesystem on a ramdisk on a 48M physical RAM machine. > >Now, the root mounts it somewhere and creates a subdirectory to which a >non-privileged user can write so a non-privileged user starts creating >files in it and easily causes out of memory bringing the box down, fscking >all filesystems etc etc.
"Don't do that, then".
p.
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