Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:08:23 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: ext3 and undeletion |
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Dan Maas wrote:
> > but I don't want a Netware filesystem running on Linux, I > > want a *native* Linux filesystem (i.e. ext3) that has the > > ability to queue deleted files should I configure it to. > > Rather than implementing this in the filesystem itself, I'd first try > writing a libc shim that overrides unlink(). You could copy files to safety, > or do anything else you want, before they actually get deleted... > > Regards, > Dan > Yes... unlink() becomes `mv /path/filename /deleted/path/filename` Simple. For idiot users, you can just make such an alias for those who insist in doing `rm *` instead of `rm \*` after they had used a wild-card as a file-name... It happens:
`ls *.* >files` ...is typoed to: `ls *.>* files`
If somebody then recreates the same file and deletes it again -- tough.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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