Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 23:04:41 +0300 From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Undelete in Unix (Was: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD) Message-ID: <LPBBJIAAFFNFMKJGNIAIIEBJCAAA.keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> In-Reply-To: <3939F26A.A405DD4A@mail.ptd.net>
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Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > >Brett Glass wrote: >> >> "Unix" (whatever it means in this context) may not have >> come up with an undelete command, but Norton Computing >> (now part of Symantec) did. The Norton Utilities for Unix >> never sold very well, but had this feature. > > I hadn't heard of that. How did it work? You can not rely on the underlying OS to have a journaling filesystem. Then, unless you use some form of "trash bin", you can not safely undelete anything. This is admittedly tricky, because even if you move the files in special directories under /tmp or /home/$USER, you can't safely implement a trash bin that works nicely across filesystem boundaries. So, I'm also very interested to know how they had implemented such a feature. Anybody with more knowledge on the topic? -- Giorgos Keramidas - mailto:charon@sabotage.gr "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the BSD spirit" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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