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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:12:47 -0600
From:      "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
To:        Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Undelete for UFS2?
Message-ID:  <F3E9560C-3C85-4E07-A6BD-82DFCEE4A2ED@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <op.td6p8rdfoycwod@carpet>
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On Aug 12, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Martin Tournoij wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:29:20 +0200, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC  
> <chad@shire.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Martin Tournoij wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:13:49 +0200, Andreas Davour  
>>> <ante@Update.UU.SE> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>> Saturday, August 12, 2006, 3:48:28 AM, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Lastly surely someone has implemented a trash folder mechanism  
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> freebsd... what is it called so I can look up how to install it?
>>>>>
>>>>> maybe something like:
>>>>>
>>>>> mkdir ~/.trash
>>>>> alias rm     'mv -iv \!* ~/.trash/'
>>>>
>>>> You don't have a handy solution for the lack of file version  
>>>> numbering as well?
>>>> That's something I'd love to see in ext4 or UFS3!
>>>>
>>>> /andreas
>>>>
>>>
>>> Snapshots?
>>
>> Isn't a snapshot a filesystem wide thing?  Sounds to complicated  
>> for file-level versioning without something on top of it like the  
>> new Apple Time Machine business
>>
>> I agree it would be nice to have file versioning in the FS like  
>> VMS does.
>>
>> Chad
>>
>
> Yeah, snapshots are FS-wide.
> If you make one once a day it's almost the same as a FS VMS feature.

No, VM creates a new version of a file for each edit.  So you would  
have to create a snapshot after each edit, so you only get 20 edits.   
And using the versioned files is not easy or intuitive since you have  
to play around with a new "FS" for each one, the snapshot.

Chad
ex-DECcie

> You can have a total of 20 snapshots, so that's 20 days...
>
> Snapshots really aren't that complicated, take a look at the  
> handbook entry:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ 
> snapshots.html
>
> Basicly it's just:
> # mknap_ffs /usr 20060812
> And you have a snapshot of /usr named 20060812
>
> Also, there's a port which offers some usefull scripts
> sysutils/freebsd-snapshot

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