Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:46:57 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: JacobRhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recover overwritten file Message-ID: <20030124024657.GB61509@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200301240943.31823.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> References: <BA54D6B8.19A6F%list@zettai.net> <200301231600.52211.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <20030123195807.GI60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> <200301240943.31823.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:43:31AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: > On Friday 24 January 2003 06:58, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Is there a particular reason why there are no facilities to 'un' unlink a > > > file in freebsd? (apart from the obvious reaon of - people shouldnt > > > delete files that they want to keep)... > > > The filesystem isn't designed to allow it. > > What would need to be in the filesystem to allow it? Surely there is a simple > solution like a directory which could hold pointers to all 'un' linked files? > (however i have never hacked a file system so I dont know these things). There are probably a number of possibilities. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MKkgWry0BWjoQKURAkDaAJwIhDceWim9HslEeHje4BAuFY4qugCgszir gkDwXEwJjZ0rJf0Glr9kSe0= =hTLK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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