From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 27 20:26:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA23876 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:26:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from tnt.isi.edu (tnt.isi.edu [128.9.128.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA23871 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:26:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from faber@ISI.EDU) Received: from ISI.EDU (vex-s.isi.edu [128.9.192.240]) by tnt.isi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA24133; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:26:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199710280426.UAA24133@tnt.isi.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering Lost Inode? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:31:26 EST." X-Url: http://www.isi.edu/~faber Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:26:38 -0800 From: Ted Faber Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Alfred Perlstein wrote: >i've always wondered why when a file was deleted there was an intelegent >way of moving it to a volitile directory where it could be overwritten at >any time, but if moved out of that dir it would be marked non-volitile >again.... Was that intended as "intelligent" or "inelegant"? :-) >(maybe i've used win95 once too many...) I won't bore you with the short scripts that provide this behavior on UNIX. If that's the file deletion paradigm that you like, it's easy to do... "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Faber faber@isi.edu USC/ISI Computer Scientist http://www.isi.edu/~faber (310) 822-1511 x190 PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNFVpfYb4eisfQ5rpAQHnXAP8CtMVVlaWuXg2cBjGixxKTsEaBsoEda1K qUbYRhJ9xTlLxluAVPYbO+psK9mt7L/5rBd3C1MMI6oH3hBClouSyUJyDFZmnb/3 SnAi3txlyM9C2trfplqvZoWj15WIXlG7vCKExdQLw2seMAIpbUl4HEUjHO284InB pIo801N1OLw= =An0A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----