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Date:      Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:13:05 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount -o noatime unsupported in -current?
Message-ID:  <199612272313.QAA25462@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612242118.WAA13246@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 24, 96 10:18:03 pm

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> > Yes, this is a nice trick ;) Then rm -rf works like hell ;-))
> > It's blindly fast and very dangerous ;)
> 
> It's not that risky.  In particular, if all you're doing is a large
> `rm' operation, fsck should always be able to repair the filesystem
> even in case of a catastrophic failure.

This is true, as long as you do *nothing* other than the large rm
before remounting sync...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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