Quota on tmpfs

Thor Lancelot Simon tls at panix.com
Wed Jul 18 09:00:25 PDT 2012


On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:35:57AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > So both because you can count too much (and break applications that
> > suddenly get impermissible errors from lseek)
> 
> Um, why would anything quota-related ever cause errors from lseek?

Because he applies quotas to file length.  The lseek is what will take
you over quota, whether you ever write or not.

Thor





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