Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-10-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > I hope you mean putting it into glibc, so that the rm program won't be > special? I have no particular preference here. It's a user-interface feature, as I see it. > I can see two reasons to put the versioning features in the filesystem > rather than

Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-10-02 Thread Roland McGrath
Marcus used the term "undeletion" but brought up the common feature of desktop systems that one might better call "delayed deletion" (there isn't a canonical term I can think of). Traditionally "undeletion" has usually referred to half-assed recovery techniques that don't necessarily work, but ar

Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

2002-10-02 Thread Niels Möller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > At this point, it seems like the filesystem already supports > everything we need, but we need a set of conventions about how to use > it, so that programs like rm don't actually issue dir_unlink calls, > but do something more clever. I hope you