Subject: Re: forbidding rm -rf /
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/05/2004 19:53:32
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:30:40PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Solaris 10 doesn't allow "rm -rf /" -- should we do the same?
> 
> http://blog.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection

No, but I do think that a journaling filesystem with optional, multiple
level 'undo/redo' would be a good goal for 3.0. :-)

Dave

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