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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:14:02 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ulrich =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sp=F6rlein?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Best <arundel@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r213398 - head/bin/rm
Message-ID:  <20101008151402.GI1733@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20101008103238.GV65440@acme.spoerlein.net>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:32:38PM +0200, Ulrich Sp=F6rlein wrote:
> On Mon, 04.10.2010 at 14:04:53 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > On 4 October 2010 13:42, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >=20
> > > good point. ZFS should really be added to the list and LFS should go =
away. are
> > > there any other relevant filesystems without a fixed-block size that =
need to be
> > > mentioned? what about afs? or tmpfs?
> >=20
> > (it's not that the block sizes aren't fixed, it's that the assignment
> > of blocks to the file is not fixed).
>=20
> Review of attached patch, anyone? I didn't come up with a clever way to
> describe non-COW file systems :/

Looks good, but I'd use a bit different wording. Instead of:

+option assumes that the underlying file system does not allocate new blocks
+when writing to existing blocks.

Maybe something like this:

+option assumes that the underlying file system updates existing blocks
+in-place and does not store new data in new location.

?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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