Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:38:57 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Best <arundel@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: svn commit: r214431 - head/bin/rm Message-ID: <20101028013857.GA4476@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4CC8A89D.5070909@delphij.net> References: <201010271848.o9RImNSR019344@svn.freebsd.org> <20101027212601.GA78062@freebsd.org> <4CC899C3.7040107@FreeBSD.org> <20101027214822.GA82697@freebsd.org> <4CC8A89D.5070909@delphij.net>
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:33:01PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > Maybe something like: > > BUGS > > The -P option assumes that the underlying storage overwrites file block > when data is written on existing offset. Several factors including the > file system and its backing store could defeat the assumption, this > includes, but is not limited to file systems that uses Copy-On-Write > strategy (e.g. ZFS or UFS when snapshot is being used), or backing > datastore that does journaling, etc. In addition, only regular files > are overwritten, other types of files are not. This sounds very nice and FreeBSD-ish. ./danfe
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