[PATCH 1/4] snapshots: Don't allow sneaked in snapshots requests

[Christian Franke]

On 10/28/2012 09:40 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> "Disabling snapshots" as a security "feature" isn't really so valid either.

With snapshots, few requests can easily create a tremendous amount of
system load, rendering the system unusable. (Imagine you have a kernel
repository and someone repeatedly requests a tar.xz for it)

In any case, your use-case seems valid as well.

Maybe one could have a setting for enabling/disabling snapshots
altogether and another setting for the snapshot formats which should be
listed? (we already have the latter)

-Christian