svn commit: r213398 - head/bin/rm

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:58:45AM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> 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."

I missed that.

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