svn commit: r213398 - head/bin/rm

Alexander Best arundel at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 4 09:58:45 UTC 2010


On Mon Oct  4 10, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:17:46AM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> > Author: delphij
> > Date: Mon Oct  4 06:17:45 2010
> > New Revision: 213398
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/213398
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Clarify the combination effect of -P and -f to make it clear.
> 
> While you're at it, it would be nice to add a note that this doesn't
> work with all file systems. In case of eg. ZFS the data won't be
> overwritten.

isn't this detail already being covered by the existing note in the BUGS
section?

     "The -P option assumes that the underlying file system is a fixed-block
     file system.  UFS is a fixed-block file system, LFS is not.  In addition,
     only regular files are overwritten, other types of files are not."

cheers.
alex

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