On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:33:01PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > Maybe something like: > > BUGS > > The -P option assumes that the underlying storage overwrites file block > when data is written on existing offset. Several factors including the > file system and its backing store could defeat the assumption, this > includes, but is not limited to file systems that uses Copy-On-Write > strategy (e.g. ZFS or UFS when snapshot is being used), or backing > datastore that does journaling, etc. In addition, only regular files > are overwritten, other types of files are not.
This sounds very nice and FreeBSD-ish. ./danfe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
