24 Feb
2000
24 Feb
'00
11:26 a.m.
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
| Log Message: | I can't believe it - solaris allows unlink of a non-empty directory as | root, leaving a corrupt filesystem. Are those guys on drugs?
I can't believe it - people are coding what are rapidly becoming standard UNIX utilities without any knowledge of UNIX history. Are those guys on drugs?
Corrupt is such a strong word. Deleting non-empty directories is not such a big deal. Sure, if you do this often pretty soon you'll have a bunch of disk that is used up, but not accounted for. However, once you fsck the system well, you'll get all the lost inodes back along with their blocks. Annoying, but no biggie. :)
Tom