Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: vfs level undelete support? | From | Shaya Potter <> | Date | 08 Apr 2003 17:35:39 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 17:33, David Parrish wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:23:12PM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: > > > Would there be any interest in a patch that added undelete support to > > the VFS. the idea would be that when one unlink's a file, instead of it > > being deleted, it is "moved" to "/.undelete/d_put path of dentry", > > coupled with a daemon that manages the size (maintains a quota per uid > > by deleting old files). > > > > It would appear to be an easy CONFIG level option, as it would just be > > do this, or normal unlink(), and would work for every fs, as well as not > > needing and LD_PRELOAD. > > This has been implemented as a shared library which you can preload. It is > a wrapper around glibc's unlink() function which moves stuff to a trash > directory. This is probably better done this way in user space because it > allows the user quite a lot of freedom to decide which files get saved.
except it doesn't work w/ statically linked or non glibc linked binaries, hence really isn't a complete solution. could be good enough though.
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