On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:28 PM ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the history of the (Berkeley) Fast File System, has there ever been > an attempt to implement DOS-like undelete for FFS/UFS? > (I understand that for technical reasons, this could require running a > daemon that remembers just enough metadata to keep data recoverable so > long as it's not overwritten. I also understand that running a daemon > that remembers things nominally deleted would have security > implications, which may not keep me from running a daemond that w/o > being perfect could protect me from myself at least some of the time.) > I did find this: > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-May/271785.html > -- which didn't seem to suggest that the answer was any yessier now > than thirty years ago. So, that's a no, then? Anyone? Bueller?
Maybe that could work for "normal delete" while making available a separate "secure delete" that cannot be un-deleted and furthermore overwrites the deleted data with random garbage. Administrators could optionally force the secure overwrite delete. >
