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Date:      Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:18:03 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: mount -o noatime unsupported in -current?
Message-ID:  <199612242118.WAA13246@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961224142452.27730A-100000@klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Dec 24, 96 02:27:35 pm"

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As Andreas Klemm wrote:

> Yes, this is a nice trick ;) Then rm -rf works like hell ;-))
> It's blindly fast and very dangerous ;)

It's not that risky.  In particular, if all you're doing is a large
`rm' operation, fsck should always be able to repair the filesystem
even in case of a catastrophic failure.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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