Re: reiserFS undeletion

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Gniazdowski wrote:

>19 Jan 2002 19:52, Martin Eriksson wrote:
>
>>>19 Jan 2002 17:41, Hans Reiser wrote:
>>>
>>>>we only log metadata.
>>>>
>>>I know. Butt if i delete some file, it dosnt mean i set zero on sectors
>>>on disk. So imvho all is needet is meta data.
>>>
>>Yes, but (not butt =) if you have done some other file operations after the
>>delete, your deleted file might have been overwritten by another file.
>>Especially if you have little free space on your hard disk.
>>
>
>Yep but ( ;)  80% situations is like "ups i deleted it" and undeletion 
>operation is taken straight after that. So it would be nice to have it... 
>Just a sugestion...
>
>Regards Gniazdowski.
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yes, it would be nice, and patches to create a /..graves (notice the 
copyright avoidance naming scheme, and the opportunity for the gui guys 
to have some fun) will be accepted by me (though whether they will get 
past Linus I don't know, I think he prefers that libc do it, so I 
suggest making it a patch to libc.)

Hans