Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:06:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:06:11 -0500 Received: from [81.2.122.30] ([81.2.122.30]:26375 "EHLO darkstar.example.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:06:09 -0500 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200301082314.h08NEe56003842@darkstar.example.net> Subject: Re: Undelete files on ext3 ?? To: john@grabjohn.com (John Bradford) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:14:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200301082303.h08N3bvI003752@darkstar.example.net> from "John Bradford" at Jan 08, 2003 11:03:37 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1018 Lines: 31 > > > | > > 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! :-) Although I was originally thinking of doing it at sector level, rather than at filesystem level. John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/