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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:29:15 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r213398 - head/bin/rm
Message-ID:  <20101004102915.GG7322@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20101004095845.GA99361@freebsd.org>
References:  <201010040617.o946HkOO002409@svn.freebsd.org> <20101004092559.GB7322@garage.freebsd.pl> <20101004095845.GA99361@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:58:45AM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Mon Oct  4 10, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:17:46AM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> > > Author: delphij
> > > Date: Mon Oct  4 06:17:45 2010
> > > New Revision: 213398
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/213398
> > >=20
> > > Log:
> > >   Clarify the combination effect of -P and -f to make it clear.
> >=20
> > While you're at it, it would be nice to add a note that this doesn't
> > work with all file systems. In case of eg. ZFS the data won't be
> > overwritten.
>=20
> isn't this detail already being covered by the existing note in the BUGS
> section?
>=20
>      "The -P option assumes that the underlying file system is a fixed-bl=
ock
>      file system.  UFS is a fixed-block file system, LFS is not.  In addi=
tion,
>      only regular files are overwritten, other types of files are not."

I missed that.

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