Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: undelet? | Date | 26 Jul 1997 00:52:59 +0200 |
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pcg@goof.com (Marc Lehmann) writes: > > It *would* be nice to have ext2fs able to undelete files, but > it's not really necessary, as it can be done in userpsace always,
Not really. You'll have to start throwing away those not-quite-deleted files sometime or the file system will become full. You'll want your 'df' program to tell you how much space you can use withouth hacking it to first do "du -s /filesystem/.undelete". The filesystem might want to throw away some undeletable file which is not the one a userspace really-delete-the- -next-undeleteable-file program would choose, eg. because it wants to reduce fragmentation.
If you can live with redoing at most a day's work again, there already is a perfect undelete method out there. It's called "do a daily backup". That may not be a perfect solution for everybody, but I for one don't need anything better.
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