[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.se • michael at kjorling.se
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is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)
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