Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 13:26:46 -0500 From: "gh" <grasshacker@linkfast.net> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE Message-ID: <001301bfcd89$467130a0$2969a0d0@leviathan> References: <200006021842.LAA24897@usr09.primenet.com> <393855D9.F5F0E5F0@mail.ptd.net> <20000603095822.A13686@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <011b01bfcd75$3706e650$2969a0d0@leviathan> <20000603225029.A13363@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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> gh said on Jun 3, 2000 at 11:03:10: > > > > > > What's wrong with having an undelete command, if someone can implement > > > one? > > > > What a silly question. > > For an operating system to have an ``undelete'' option, the OS must maintain > > a copy of the deleted files...which defeats the purpose of deleting the damn > > files. > > man 2 undelete > > Basically, a delete/rm command doesn't physically erase data from the > disk, it only removes the file entry. The data may still be there if > you're lucky. I don't know what the issues are with ufs, however. > With an msdos filesystem it's pretty straightforward to get the data > back if that hard disk space hasn't been written over in the meantime. > True, but in order to have a *guaranteed*(mostly) recovery of the file, a journaling file system or something similar would be necessary. > > Everybody makes mistakes; it is *NOT* the job of the operating system > > to pick up the poopoo left after the mistake. > > But it helps... > ...so does learning from mistakes. Dan PS: All of us probably have better things about which to be concerned...like punctuation. ;-)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Alludes to the Punctuation thread. > R. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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