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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Undelete files on ext3 ??
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:03:37 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <200301082206.h08M6pRA014912@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> from "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" at Jan 08, 2003 05:06:51 PM
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> > | > > What I was thinking of was a virtual device that allocated a new
> > | > > sector whenever an old one was overwritten - kind of like a journaled
> > | > > filesystem, but without the filesystem, (I.E. just the journal) :-).
> > | >
> > | > $ DIR FOO.TXT;*
> > | > FOO.TXT;1   FOO.TXT;2   FOO.TXT;2
> > | >
> > | > VMS-style file versioning, anybody? ;)
> > |
> > | Brilliant!
> > 
> > re-read the archives from 6-8 months ago.
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101914252421742&w=2

So basically the idea already already exists:

http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/katie/

Brilliant!  :-)

John.
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