From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 3 11:26:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postal.linkfast.net (postal.linkfast.net [208.160.105.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69D437BBD3 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grasshacker@linkfast.net) Received: from leviathan (gh.ws.linkfast.net [208.160.105.41]) by postal.linkfast.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 816219B42; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 13:26:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001301bfcd89$467130a0$2969a0d0@leviathan> From: "gh" To: "Rahul Siddharthan" Cc: 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> Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 13:26:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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