On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 02:55:58PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:52:37 -0400 > Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > sysctl -a | grep protected > > fs.protected_hardlinks = 0 > > fs.protected_symlinks = 0 > > > I apologize for the ignorance - but what do these _do_. > > (please don't say they protect your hardlinks and symlinks) - I mean > what does 'protected' mean in this context. See: http://lwn.net/Articles/503660/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel