Hammer FS: imposing a size limit on PFS?

Matthias Schmidt matthias at dragonflybsd.org
Wed Feb 25 23:38:33 PST 2009


He,

* Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>     The idea with HAMMER is you just create one big filesystem and use the
>     PFS functionality to break it up into separate management domains.
>     Currently a size limit may not be placed on a PFS.

This raises an important question: what to do if one uses HAMMER on a
multi user box?  It should be possible for a malicious user to fill up
his $HOME on the /home PFS and thus blow the fs up, or?  Correct me if
I'm wrong.  If I'm right what is the policy for admins using HAMMER on a
machine with a lot of user shells?

Regards

	Matthias

PS: Someone interested to hack quota support for HAMMER? :)





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