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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:35:54 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r213398 - head/bin/rm
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010041435200.95088@woozle.rinet.ru>
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, 4 Oct 2010, Alexander Best wrote:

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

Maybe s/LFS/ZFS/ then, as LFS is no more relevant for FreeBSD users while ZFS 
now is?


-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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