From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nobody at nowhere.ws (Christian Franke) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:33:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] snapshots: Don't allow sneaked in snapshots requests In-Reply-To: References: <1351455531-12208-1-git-send-email-sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Message-ID: <508DCEF2.60905@nowhere.ws> On 10/28/2012 09:40 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > "Disabling snapshots" as a security "feature" isn't really so valid either. With snapshots, few requests can easily create a tremendous amount of system load, rendering the system unusable. (Imagine you have a kernel repository and someone repeatedly requests a tar.xz for it) In any case, your use-case seems valid as well. Maybe one could have a setting for enabling/disabling snapshots altogether and another setting for the snapshot formats which should be listed? (we already have the latter) -Christian