Re: tmpfs accounting (was: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?)

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Christoph Rohland wrote:

>
> I would not like to add the real size without a bigger goal (I would
> not see a problem with a fake size).
>

It defeats the filesystem size limit, and makes it possible to an
unprivileged user to consume unlimited amounts of kernel memory.

        -hpa

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