On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:19:07PM +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > Each of the mounted filesystems provides a set of methods implementing > the filesystem syscalls for this kind of filesystem and there are no > restriction regarding what these method might do. Eg, one could create a > filesystem where deleting a file named Richard causes an immediate > ACPI poweroff. There's also a Filesystem In Userspace (FUSE) facility > which enables arbitrary applications to implement filesystem syscalls. > > "Invoke unlink/ rmdir methods for all named objects currently visible in > the filesystem namespace" is something very much different from > "fill a disk partition with zeroes" and doing this without knowing what > these unlink/ rmdir methods will end up doing is just recklessly trying > one's luck.
The situation is more explicit in the modern filenamespace-based OS's like Plan 9 and Inferno. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
