Re: [RFC] ext2 and ext3 block reservations can be bypassed

[Alexander Viro]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Jesse Pollard wrote:
 
> However, not all daemons run as root, but do log into /var/adm or /var/log.
> If these fill up the log device without restraint, then your audit logs will
> ALSO be affected (unless you have syslog send them to a different host).

syslogd _does_ run as root and it can happily overflow the damn thing,
reserved blocks or not.