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. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com p...@freebsd.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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