Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive

Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.com
Sun Sep 12 22:41:00 GMT 2010


--On Sunday, September 12, 2010 2:21 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> Hi Corinna,
>
> I will give the snapshot a test.  Here is the output of attrib:
>
> build@zre-win-002
> /cygdrive/z/current/WINDOWS/ZDESKTOP-608/20100912050101_ZDESKTOP/ZimbraBu
> ild/templates
> $ attrib BUILD_ISYNC_template
> A    R
> Z:\current\WINDOWS\ZDESKTOP-608\20100912050101_ZDESKTOP\ZimbraBuild\templ
> ates\BUILD_ISYNC_template

Hi Corinna,

With the snapshot in place, I can now remove the files.

With plain "rm", it prompts (as it should) and succeeds if I answer yes.
With "rm -f", no prompt, and it succeeds.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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