On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Robert Watson wrote:
> The linking behavior in conjunction with quotas makes a lot of sense: if a
> user wants to consume someone else's quota, she just hard links to their
> files so they cannot delete them. And if she are mean, she links to them
> in private directories so t
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> > Dmitry Valdov wrote:
> > > I think that there is only one way to fix it - it's to disable making
> > > *hard*links to directory with mode 1777.
>
> I don't use quotas, and don't know a great deal about how they
> operate, but I think there's anoth
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Dmitry Valdov wrote:
> I think that there is only one way to fix it - it's to disable making
> *hard*links to directory with mode 1777.
I'm wondering: are you concerned this is possible, or that you really have
a user doing it? I have kicked users off the system for less when
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Fernando Schapachnik wrote:
> Are you aware that, due to nature of hardlinks the only extra space is
> same that for an empty file? Due to this, how many empty files do you
> think it takes to eat the whole space of / ?
They take *less* space than an empty file, just the direc
