Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 23 Jun 1996 11:50:27 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: , Drawbacks of implementing undelete entirely in user space |
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On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Rich Tollerton wrote: > > Not even that - a crontab entry containing a shell/perl script that would > remove files from .wastebasket after a 'days since modified'/number of > files in .wastebasket/size of .wastebasket would be simple to program and > very small (I'd think under 5k). Then rename rm to something else that > script (and people who really really want to delete their files) can > call, and make a new rm that moves the file to the .wastebasket and > writes its path in a data file. Total modification size, including both rms > and man pages would be under 50k. > > Lost anybody there? :)
No, but what happens when the free space on the disk reaches 0 because of the saved files. If you don't put some of it in the kernel, you can't use the ext2 u bit to determin which files should be saved on unlinking, and you can't recycle the space for new files.
Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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