rm -rf * is a power tool. Because of its usefulness, you don't remove the blade from a circular saw. You do, however, put a hand-guard on the blade to prevent c

rm -rf * is a power tool. Because of its usefulness, you don't remove the blade from a circular saw. You do, however, put a hand-guard on the blade to prevent catastrophic accidents. Note that rm -rf / requires --no-preserve-root to remove / on most (all?) distros. The shitty performance of atime is shitty performance, rather than a useful attribute of the tool.