From: ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, sct@redhat.com,
James Hunt <james@jameshunt.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext2/3/4: enable "undeletable" file attribute.
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:11:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8j3b8c70ag.fsf@ritchie.ping.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611220121.33522.arnd@arndb.de> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:21:32 +0100")
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 23:16, James Hunt wrote:
> > ... it's not honoured by the kernel:
> >
> > > rm /tmp/wibble # yikes! this should fail!!
>
> I always thought of the term 'undeletable' to mean that you can
> undelete the file (restore it) after it has been deleted. Of course,
> this is not implemented either, but it means something very different
> than what your patch does.
That is indeed what the documented (but not implemented) meaning is.
>From chattr(1):
| When a file with the ‘u’ attribute set is deleted, its contents
| are saved. This allows the user to ask for its undeletion.
So the meaning is undelete-able, not un-deletable.
--
ilmari
"A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is,
at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-21 22:16 [PATCH 1/3] ext2/3/4: enable "undeletable" file attribute James Hunt
2006-11-22 0:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-22 1:11 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [this message]
2006-11-22 10:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
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