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		jxy on Oct 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Lin... I'm never that nervous when doing `rm -fr` on my Plan9 or FreeBSD or macOS systems, which all have frequent snapshots turned on. We could all just work with WORM drives instead.

Skunkleton on Oct 24, 2018 [–]

I am similarly not worried on my Linux system, which also has frequent snapshots turned on. Instead I worry about bugs in btrfs, but that is another story.

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