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From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: "Rose, Billy" <wrose@loislaw.com>
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Subject: Re: ext3 and undeletion
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Rose, Billy wrote:
> "So the pain for the sysadmin will certainly not be decreased."
> 
> My company can tolerate 0% loss of data (which is why I raised this issue).
> The sysadmin's pain would be standing in the unemployment line if a file
> could not be recovered (which is currently from a heap of tapes that may
> take many hours to locate). The issue is not an easier job, but data
> integrity. Any sysadmin would state that every user at some point in time
> will delete something that is critical. Hell, I've done it myself on my own
> workstation after staring at the screen for 15 hours on a Saturday. The
> ability to handle situations like a file going "poof" is why my company will
> not use Linux on these particular file servers. My aim was to change that by
> crushing the only thing holding Netware in my company.

Ever tought of adding some *archiving* features to samba - fully
transparent to the users and still no need to mess around with the
kernel? And last but not least - much easier to implement correctly,
if the only thing you wan't is to crash netware...

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