Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:12:28 +0200 (CEST) | From | Kurt Huwig <> | Subject | Re: undelete? |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Kurt Huwig wrote: > > I looked through dejanews and found Rogier's patch. It did not patch in > > directly, because the sources have changed a little bit, so I did it by > > hand, together with minor changes: > > Kurt, there should be a followup that had a slightly different patch. > There is an attribute bit that says "this file needs safe delete", > which is currently unused. I didn't know that, so I wrote it without > using that bit. Someon else volunteerd "but there is a bit, for which > you just made the implementation".
After some time, I found the patch. From the ext2-sources:
/* * Inode flags */ #define EXT2_SECRM_FL 0x00000001 /* Secure deletion */ #define EXT2_UNRM_FL 0x00000002 /* Undelete */ #define EXT2_COMPR_FL 0x00000004 /* Compress file */
Darren refers to the 'Undelete' flag not to 'Secure deletion' which is the opposite in my view (overwrite the whole file before deletion).
This is indeed a Good Thing (tm) iff there was an EASY tool to set the 'u'-flag. The only one I found was the 'ext2ed'-tool which is not very handy. So, where can I can an easy tool for changing this flag?
Darren says the undelete-flag is inherited for subdirectories, but just for creation, I guess.
I will incorporate Darren's patch into your patch and put it on my webpage.
Still, something like this has to be in a HOWTO/README whatever in place of the current 'it is worked on'.
Kurt
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