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

[Alan Cox]

> > If this is not a security feature, Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
> > needs to be changed.  Eg., 
> 
> I'd suggest you to mail to [e-mail]; it sounds like
> security hole to me, and probably common across many unix variants.

The original Unix documentation for FFS refers to it only as a performance
oriented reason.

Alan