On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:18:16PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote: > > > /var/run/$USER under ext2 and a LOT of users can easily become a DoS attack > > in itself... > > Not if you've got /var/run on a filesystem by itself (just like /var/tmp), or > have quota. what he means is ext2 with huge directories sucks, go create a directory with 50000 files/directories in it flat, then do an ls or something. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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