Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: EXT2_UNRM_FL | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:16:09 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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g@cx888441-a.cv1.sdca.home.com wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:26:46 +1100 > > From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> > > > > (d) why not do it in userspace anyway? I did that years ago, although > > I "moved" files to /tmp, but it would be easy enough to move to a > > garbage/$LOGNAME directory on the same FS. > > > > Absolutely, agreed. As I said earlier, there are plenty of user-space > > "rm" replacements, and doing it in the kernel is almost certainly not > > worth the pain. > > > > It might be worth it for the kernel to add a wakeup to the undelete > > daemon telling it that space is low and it should remove some of the > > deleted files, but I'd want to see how well a strategy of polling every > > minute works (or doesn't work) before deciding whether the extra kernel > > bloat was worth it. > > > one thing I am concerned is the those 'rm' replacements does not cover all > the cases. For example, you can call 'unlink' directly from c/perl > program, which will not go through 'rm'. If you really want undelete > freature, I think it should be done a little higher level than, replacing > 'rm'. hrmm that makes me wonder.. when you overwrite a file, does the > kernel 'unlink' the file first and assign a new inode?
This is a FAQ.
It creates an ugly thread, that keeps dragging on and on.
Just to prove my point "writing it is quicker than discussing it for days on end on linux-kernel", I wrote it a few years ago. It's on Dejanews.
Regards,
Roger.
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