Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-09-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder, should undeletion (aka the Windows trash can) better be done at a > per-filesystem level (like, in diskfs), or with an extra-filesystem that is > stacked (like shadowfs)? Undeletion, without exact semantics, is a mistake, wherever it is imp

Slashdot story

2002-09-30 Thread Jeff Bailey
Neal's pthreads for Hurd package just made the slashdot front page. If any of you have time over the day, can you please check in there and help dispell some of the usual FUD and misinformation that is usual for slashdot? (Especially around the Hurd!) Tks, Jeff Bailey -- learning from failure

Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-09-30 Thread Niels Möller
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder, should undeletion (aka the Windows trash can) better be done at a > per-filesystem level (like, in diskfs), or with an extra-filesystem that is > stacked (like shadowfs)? I think I'd rather have a versioning filesystem (what emacs emulates

undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-09-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I wonder, should undeletion (aka the Windows trash can) better be done at a per-filesystem level (like, in diskfs), or with an extra-filesystem that is stacked (like shadowfs)? The experiments with shadowfs show that it is feasible to do it this way, but also that it is not easy: shadowfs is

Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0

2002-09-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:00:17PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:04:09 +1200 (NZST) > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk. > > > > Yes, i will keep you informed. > > I might have been able to