Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:38:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:36:39 -0500 Received: from [213.38.169.194] ([213.38.169.194]:55819 "EHLO proxy.herefordshire.gov.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:34:45 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Randal, Phil" To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: RE: ext3 and undeletion Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:37:22 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org James D Strandboge wrote: > However, for unlink there wouldn't be a big I/O problem in getting the > items into .undelete-- we are just changing links. It should be > relatively easy to implement, not very intrusive, should be useful in > the general case (rm and gui apps) and won't cause the disk > to fill up. > > Jamie That's definitely better than nothing. Now all we need to do is keep track of deletion time and which user did the deletion. Which will give us the same functionality that NetWare offers. Last week I had to salvage hundreds of files from a Netware 5.1 server after a careless user had deleted a substantial directory tree. Without being able to sort by deletion time by job would have been a lot harder. And yes, I recovered a lot of files which had been changed since the previous night's backup. Cheers, Phil --------------------------------------------- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK - 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/