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Subject: Re: [RFC] ext2 and ext3 block reservations can be bypassed
To: pavel@ucw.cz (Pavel Machek)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:29:49 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> > If this is not a security feature, Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
> > needs to be changed.  Eg., 
> 
> I'd suggest you to mail to bugtraq@securityfocus.com; 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