On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Lionel Cons wrote:

> On 25 June 2012 11:33,  <casper....@oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> To be honest, I think we should also remove this from all other
>> filesystems and I think ZFS was created this way because all modern
>> filesystems do it that way.

I agree with Casper here.  This is a historical accident that would be nice to 
fix.

> 
> This may be wrong way to go if it breaks existing applications which
> rely on this feature. It does break applications in our case.

Really?!?  unlink on directories is an incredibly bad idea.  What is your 
application?  Do you know why it is doing this?

> 
> Anyway, we've added this to the list of mandatory features and see
> what we can procure with that.

Rule out ZFS, and most other filesystems unless you are happy to have your 
application run with elevated privilege.

        - Garrett

> 
> Lionel
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