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> References: <44DD336C.1080403@comcast.net> <531772590.20060812103027@rulez.sk> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608121212340.19972@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <op.td599xuhoycwod@carpet> <96F1B869-255C-403B-9A91-ACA042D2E14C@shire.net> <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 --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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