Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755894AbXL3Dzj (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:55:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753110AbXL3Dzc (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:55:32 -0500 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org ([208.69.40.136]:59676 "EHLO twinlark.arctic.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753106AbXL3Dzb (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:55:31 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:55:29 -0800 (PST) From: dean gaudet To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu cc: David Newall , Mark Lord , Al Viro , Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ? In-Reply-To: <25388.1198986232@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: References: <47684DBD.6030502@rtr.ca> <20071218230016.GF8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20071218231404.GG8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> <47689608.3030503@rtr.ca> <4768973C.8020909@davidnewall.com> <47760578.2090305@davidnewall.com> <4776AF82.6010808@davidnewall.com> <25388.1198986232@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 0.999999 (DEB 847 2007-12-06) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 19 On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:40:47 PST, dean gaudet said: > > > the main worry i have is some user maliciously hardlinks everything > > under /var/log somewhere else and slowly fills up the file system with > > old rotated logs. > > "Doctor, it hurts when I do this.." "Well, don't do that then". actually it doesn't hurt. i have other mechanisms which would pick this up fairly quickly. -dean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/