To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, sct@redhat.com,
       James Hunt <james@jameshunt.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext2/3/4: enable "undeletable" file attribute.
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From: ilmari@ilmari.org (=?utf-8?q?Dagfinn_Ilmari_Manns=C3=A5ker?=)
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:11:35 +0000
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 23:16, James Hunt wrote:
> > ... it's not honoured by the kernel:
> > 
> >   > rm /tmp/wibble             # yikes! this should fail!!
>
> I always thought of the term 'undeletable' to mean that you can
> undelete the file (restore it) after it has been deleted. Of course,
> this is not implemented either, but it means something very different
> than what your patch does.

That is indeed what the documented (but not implemented) meaning is.
>From chattr(1):

|       When a file with the ‘u’ attribute set is deleted, its contents
|       are saved. This allows the user to ask for its undeletion.

So the meaning is undelete-able, not un-deletable.

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ilmari
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