Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:23:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:23:27 -0500 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:11537 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:22:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:22:31 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@duckman.distro.conectiva To: Mike Fedyk Cc: Martin Dalecki , "H. Peter Anvin" , Subject: Re: ext3 and undeletion In-Reply-To: <20020226171634.GL4393@matchmail.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:07:49PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > >>For the educated user it was always a pain > > >>in the you know where, to constantly run out of quota space due to > > >>file versioning. > > >> > > > > > >Ahh, so we'd need to chown the files to root (or a configurable user and > > >group) to get around the quota issue. > > > > Welcome to my kill-file. This just shows that you don't even have basic > > background. > > Thank you. > > Now, if I'm talking out of my ass, can someone sane say so? Your idea should work on deletion, when the inode were about to be destroyed, but ... > It would only call chown/chgrp on the files *inside* the undelete dir, > and user,group,etc would have to be accounted for in another way. Am I > going in the wrong direction? ... of course, there still is the problem of hard links. If you unlink a file, it might still be around under another name. Consider: $ ln bigfile newbigfile $ rm bigfile Under your scheme, maybe bigfile would be moved to the undeletion area ... fine. The problem would start if the ownership was changed to root, because then 'newbigfile' would also be owned by root and you could no longer access your file ;) regards, Rik -- Will hack the VM for food. http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/