Re: iCultist cites serious OS X flaw - Snit worthy "challenge" in progress

From	Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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 - Snit worthy "challenge" in progress
Date	2015-10-12 08:59 -0400
Organization	None
Message-ID	<mvgap0$2p4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(20 earlier) <mve0rg$vn7$1@dont-email.me> <111020151241265475%nospam@nospam.invalid> <mve67a$26i$4@news.albasani.net> <mvegds$tn2$2@dont-email.me> <mvg3qq$o45$1@news.albasani.net>

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Nobody wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 10/11/2015 3:23 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Nobody wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On 10/11/2015 11:41 AM, nospam wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> A true Snit challenge: Do something stupid then call the system inferior
>>> when what you did breaks it.
>>
>> The article applies to OSX as well as Linux and BSD.
>>
>> Not sure what spam is yammering about.
>
> "classic mac os could (and did) run with 0 bytes available."
>
> He's gone on to claim that would be with no data loss, and no crashing.

And no saving :-D

Maybe he should switch to classic Mac :-D

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