GNU bug report logs - #24406
rm command: different behaviors seen with indirect blocks of a file

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Kothagere Siddalinga, Mahesh" <mxk145330 <at> utdallas.edu>

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 17:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 24406-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Kothagere Siddalinga, Mahesh" <mxk145330 <at> utdallas.edu>,
 24406-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24406: rm command: different behaviors seen with indirect
 blocks of a file
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:07:59 -0700

Kothagere Siddalinga, Mahesh wrote:
> Request you to point me in the direction as to why only some distributions of Linux seems to zero out the indirect block pointers associated with the files.

I'm afraid that bug-coreutils is not a good mailing list to query about this. 
You might doing your homework by reading the relevant file systems' source code.
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