Re: iCultist cites serious OS X flaw

Date	2015-10-11 15:55 -0600
From	GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.freeware, alt.hacker, alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: iCultist cites serious OS X flaw
References	(20 earlier) <mvdebi$vjm$1@dont-email.me> <111020151118347197%nospam@nospam.invalid> <mve0rg$vn7$1@dont-email.me> <111020151241265475%nospam@nospam.invalid> <mvegc3$tn2$1@dont-email.me>
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On 10/11/15 14:22, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> nospam wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> In article<mve0rg$vn7$1@dont-email.me>, Chris Ahlstrom
>> <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>  wrote:
>>
>>>>> Linux reserves an amount (depending on disk size) for system / root usage.
>>>>> Even if applications fill all available space, the system keeps running
>>>>> because the reserved space is *not* accessible to applications
>>>>>
>>>>> So even if you set up your filesystem so idiotic like OSX does by default,
>>>>> linux will keep on running
>>>>
>>>> the fact that it reserves space proves my point.
>>>>
>>>> classic mac os could (and did) run with 0 bytes available.
>>>
>>> This article seems to indicate that all modern "UNIXen" (Linux, BSD, OSX)
>>> can keep going with *filesystems* that are full, spam:
>>>
>>>     http://www.cyberciti.biz/datacenter/linux-unix-bsd-osx-cannot-write-to-hard-disk/
>>
>> you're ignoring the reserved space which means the drive isn't actually
>> full. you're also ignoring that there are multiple mounted volumes. try
>> filling *all* of them to 0 bytes left.
>
> Whatever.  I had a full partition a couple of times.  No crashes.
>
> My guess is you're full of it.
>
You mean you never got a warning pop-up about your disk is full?

You should have.


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