Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 13:23:13 +0000 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: Jos Chrispijn <bsduser@cloudzeeland.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm | Cleaning up recycle bin Message-ID: <BC305B20-92FF-461A-99FD-9FEB815F380F@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <3d81f318-b162-0b9d-ef97-0acce8f2de32@cloudzeeland.nl> References: <a589bf69-a53b-a732-08ff-74e09b723bbd@cloudzeeland.nl> <CFDA143D-F27C-4BC7-B619-A36462F7A378@exonetric.com> <3d81f318-b162-0b9d-ef97-0acce8f2de32@cloudzeeland.nl>
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> On 23 Feb 2020, at 13:16, Jos Chrispijn <bsduser@cloudzeeland.nl> wrote:
>
> I see; is that ZFS behavior or goes that for all BSD file systems?
All POSIX conformant file systems, including ZFS. If you look at the man page, this behaviour is in the summary
NAME
rm, unlink - remove directory entries
The *directory entry* referencing that chain of blocks is removed. The chain of blocks remains and can be overwritten at any time after the directory entry is removed.
- Mark
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