From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 21:29:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C9C106566B for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:29:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19318FC0A for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:29:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18643 invoked by uid 399); 27 Oct 2010 21:29:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 27 Oct 2010 21:29:41 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CC899C3.7040107@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:29:39 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101024 Thunderbird/3.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Best References: <201010271848.o9RImNSR019344@svn.freebsd.org> <20101027212601.GA78062@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20101027212601.GA78062@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: svn commit: r214431 - head/bin/rm X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:29:44 -0000 On 10/27/10 14:26, Alexander Best wrote: > are in fact COW fs the only exception where the -P flag won't work? before > r213582 LFS was mentioned here and that the block size must be fixed. > also the comment in rm.c says that -P won't work for any logging file systems. > i'm not a fs expert, but i think mentioning that -P won't work for COW fs isn't > enough. What may be a better approach is to confirm the fs' that DO work, list them, and then add something to the effect of, "This feature is unlikely to work on other file systems." hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/