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From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them?
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 16:06:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190531160622.n3uwzr7hb2b2bpyn@h-174-65.A328.priv.bahnhof.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1559315101.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>

On 31 May 2019 09:05 -0600, from beebe@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@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.

-- 
Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@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)

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-31 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-31  0:21 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31  0:37 ` Larry McVoy
2019-05-31  0:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-05-31 15:05   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31 16:06     ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2019-05-31 16:15       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-31 16:38         ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-31 15:55   ` Rico Pajarola
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-30 16:04 Noel Chiappa
2019-05-30 16:48 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:42   ` ron
2019-05-30 13:49 David
2019-05-30 14:23 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2019-05-30 14:26 ` Dan Cross
2019-05-30 14:27 ` Rico Pajarola
2019-05-31  7:16   ` George Ross
2019-05-30 14:29 ` Robert Brockway
2019-05-30 14:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-05-30 14:48   ` John P. Linderman
2019-05-30 14:57     ` Jim Geist
2019-05-30 14:55 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2019-05-30 15:00 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:28 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-30 19:19 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-30 20:42 ` Warner Losh
2019-05-30 22:23   ` George Michaelson
2019-05-31  1:36 ` alan
2019-05-31 19:07 ` Pete Wright
2019-05-31 20:43   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-31 20:59     ` Pete Wright
2019-06-01  0:30 ` reed
2019-06-04 13:50 ` Tony Finch

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