Re: svn commit: r214431 - head/bin/rm

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Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Date
27 Oct 2010 21:29:44
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Re: svn commit: r214431 - head/bin/rm
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On 10/27/10 14:26, Alexander Best wrote:
> are in fact COW fs the only exception where the -P flag won't work? before
> r213582 LFS was mentioned here and that the block size must be fixed.
> also the comment in rm.c says that -P won't work for any logging file systems.
> i'm not a fs expert, but i think mentioning that -P won't work for COW fs isn't
> enough.

What may be a better approach is to confirm the fs' that DO work, list
them, and then add something to the effect of, "This feature is unlikely
to work on other file systems."


hth,

Doug

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