From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 12 19:12:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100BD16A4DE for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:12:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2208543D77 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:12:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1GByue-000AMI-6V; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:12:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: <44DD336C.1080403@comcast.net> <531772590.20060812103027@rulez.sk> <96F1B869-255C-403B-9A91-ACA042D2E14C@shire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:12:47 -0600 To: Martin Tournoij X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-questions Questions Subject: Re: Undelete for UFS2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:12:55 -0000 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 > wrote: > >> >> On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Martin Tournoij wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:13:49 +0200, Andreas Davour >>> 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