Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:25:37 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How a file is deleted in ufs2? Message-ID: <20060421012537.0949ac45.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060414064727.GA77608@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1144687418.11014.9.camel@diegows> <443AFB03.6060301@samsco.org> <20060411210858.G46778@delplex.bde.org> <20060413041618.6aa7d8c7.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20060414064727.GA77608@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:47:27 -0400 Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:16:18AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:56:11 +1000 (EST) > > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Scott Long wrote: > > > > > > > IOW, there is no easy way to undelete a file. > > > > > > This is currently true, except in the rare case where undelete(2) works. > > > > Oh, so it has worked for someone. I always wonder why we have this > > functionality when I have never been able to make it work. Using > > rm(1) that is. > > DESCRIPTION > The undelete() system call attempts to recover the deleted file named by > path. Currently, this works only when the named object is a whiteout in > a union file system. What it fails to do is tell users what a "whiteout" is. At least it was very unobvious to me while reading the manual page. -- Tom Rhodes
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