Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:35:48 +0200 | From | Lew Palm <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: > The old novell model is simple. When someone unlinks a file, don't > delete it, just mv it to another special directory called DELETED.SAV. > Then setup the > fs space allocation to reuse these files when the drive fills up by > oldest files first. It's very simple. Then you have a salvagable file > system.
A complete foolproof car is a car with a maximum speed of 0 mph. As a user I give commands to my computer, for example an order to delete a file. And this is what I expect it to do. If I want it to move a file to another position in the filesystem, I would use another command. I don't want my operating system to josh me, that's why I use Linux. Stealthy keeping of deleted files somewhere is a security black hole.
But accidents happen. Hardware perishes, users are making mistakes, sometimes coffee is pouring... That's why we backup important data regulary. A not-really-deleting-filesystem wouldn't relieve us of that duty, but would make a system more insecure and ambiguous.
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