Re: Proposal: restrict link(2)
Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org)
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:50:21 -0800
Nicholas J. Leon writes:
> Your example doesn't demostrate that if:
>
> user1 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1k count=1k
> # repquota -a | grep user1
> user1 -- 1029 0 0 1 0 0
> user2 $ ln ~user1/foo ~/bar
> user1 $ rm foo
> # repquota -a | grep user1
> user1 -- 1029 0 0 1 0 0
>
> at this point the quota's for user1 still show the usage, as they
> should considering the blocks are still allocated. So user2 could fill
> user1's quotas by hard linking foo as many times as needed.
Linking foo multiple times won't increase user1's quota proportionately;
user2 at least has to link many different files from user1.