[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #776: users are confused by "tahoe rm"

[Shawn Willden]

On Sunday 27 December 2009 06:43:43 pm Brian Warner wrote:
> My argument for continuing to use "delete" to explain what "tahoe rm"
> does is that, from the point of view of the directory you passed in,
> those files *are* deleted. If you happen to know of a different path to
> them, then sure, they're still around in some sense, but a lot of folks
> will think of those as effectively being separate copies anyways.

Indeed, the files are just as much deleted as they are in any Unix file 
system.  The only difference is that in a Tahoe grid garbage collection is 
much slower (really slow if the storage nodes have GC turned off).

	Shawn.