On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Alexander Best wrote:

AB> On Mon Oct  4 10, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
AB> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:17:46AM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
AB> > > Author: delphij
AB> > > Date: Mon Oct  4 06:17:45 2010
AB> > > New Revision: 213398
AB> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/213398
AB> > > 
AB> > > Log:
AB> > >   Clarify the combination effect of -P and -f to make it clear.
AB> > 
AB> > While you're at it, it would be nice to add a note that this doesn't
AB> > work with all file systems. In case of eg. ZFS the data won't be
AB> > overwritten.
AB> 
AB> isn't this detail already being covered by the existing note in the BUGS
AB> section?
AB> 
AB>      "The -P option assumes that the underlying file system is a fixed-block
AB>      file system.  UFS is a fixed-block file system, LFS is not.  In 
addition,
AB>      only regular files are overwritten, other types of files are not."

Maybe s/LFS/ZFS/ then, as LFS is no more relevant for FreeBSD users while ZFS 
now is?


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Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 ma...@freebsd.org ]
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