Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 3/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 8 Oct 2002 21:41:43 +0100


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:20:38PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:14:00PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > Users might just fill up all xattr space leaving no space for ACLs (or
> > similar). If user xattrs are disabled this can no longer occur, so some
> > administrators might be happy to have a choice.
>
> Umm, that's why we have quota..

It's the per-inode extended attribute space that's at risk here,
quotas don't help.

--Stephen
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