[TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them?

Michael Kjörling michael at kjorling.se
Sat Jun 1 02:06:22 AEST 2019


On 31 May 2019 09:05 -0600, from beebe at math.utah.edu (Nelson H. F. Beebe):
> Some of the key ZFS features are:
> /snip/
> 	* snapshots are readonly, and thus, immune to ransomware
>           attacks;

Let's hope said ransomware isn't smart enough to run "zfs list X -t
snapshot" and "zfs destroy X at Y".

And while "zfs list" is Mostly Harmless, let's hope the sysadmin is
smart enough to not let arbitrary users run "zfs destroy" anything
important.

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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.semichael at kjorling.se
  “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person
              is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)


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