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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:29:16 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org>
Subject:   Re: A way to recover deleted files (just contents) from USF2
Message-ID:  <20040421002916.GA70060@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040420184717.GE724@empiric.dek.spc.org>
References:  <20040420150916.GA1535@frontfree.net> <200404201557.i3KFvbhQ050153@green.homeunix.org> <20040420184717.GE724@empiric.dek.spc.org>

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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:47:17PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:57:37AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > That sounds like a cool idea.  Maybe you could write a small program to=
 do=20
> > that and an rc.d script for it?  Simplest operation would be something =
like:
> [snip]
>=20
> I second that this also sounds like a cool idea, albeit limited on a
> per-filesystem basis. Snapshotting all filesystems would obviously be
> a bad idea.

I tried this once but ran into deadlocks with the snap code.  These
might have since been fixed.  Also, creating the snapshot was
sometimes taking an exceedingly long time, which is bad since it locks
out all filesystem write access while the operation is in progress.

Kris

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