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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>
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> On 23 Feb 2020, at 13:16, Jos Chrispijn <bsduser@cloudzeeland.nl> =
wrote:
>=20
> 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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