Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 May 2002 21:02:02 +0200 | From | Jakob Østergaard <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ext2 and ext3 block reservations can be bypassed |
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On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 11:37:30AM -0700, Elladan wrote: ... Ok, thanks for the explanation earlier in the thread. I was mistaken.
> > 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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