> cause a file to be removed, or removed right away. This matters when > you are out of disk space, and so perhaps I am unsympathetic because I > have never been out of disk space. Otherwise, I think it doesn't really > matter, and offers a lot of benefits.
In addition, the first few messages in the exchange indicated to me that the real culprit was a buggy file system or other system component, because he claimed he had to fsck... not merely remount... the file system to recover the space.
