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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> This also intersects in interesting ways with dcache pruning, and
> automounting.

In particular we already have mounts that expire.  So deleting the
files or directories of mount points (when allowed) should just be 
a case of expiring the mount point.

When it is ok to do that is a separate question.

Eric