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Re:Fun with gzip bombs and email clients by ac29 on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:51PM (#44655582)
> Now I read articles like this one talking about "oh yeah Evolution filled up 100GB of space" like that's no big deal.

Is this actually a practical issue though? Windows, Mac and Linux all support transparent compression at the filesystem level, so 100GB of /dev/zero isnt actually going to fill much space at all.

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Re:Fun with gzip bombs and email clients by kiwijamo on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:50AM (#44655805)
That's not switched on by default unless you use a filesytsem like ZFS.
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