Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:44:20 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: tmpfs accounting (was: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?) |
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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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