Re: when does the lost datafile get noticed
- From: mkb <mkb125@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx, oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:26:30 -0800 (PST)
--- Michael McMullen <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> or does
> this go back to the inode post a few days back.
And as Peter Gram noted:
> When you delete a file on unix the file is not
> removed until all
> processes has closes the file.
When you issue the rm command, the actual function
that gets executed is unlink. From the man pages:
"unlink deletes a name from the filesystem. If that
name was the last link to a file and no processes have
the file open the file is deleted and the space it
was using is made available for reuse.
If the name was the last link to a file but any
processes still have the file open the file will
remain in existence until the last file descriptor
referring to it is closed."
If you think of rm as a synonym to unlink, then this
makes better sense. Show the client this and they
should be able to understand as well.
--
mohammed
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