From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 23 18:47: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282D137B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:47:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-48.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A3243E4A for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:46:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52BE066E3D; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:46:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 32652165C; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:46:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:46:57 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: JacobRhoden Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recover overwritten file Message-ID: <20030124024657.GB61509@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200301231600.52211.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <20030123195807.GI60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> <200301240943.31823.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301240943.31823.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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' unli= nk a > > > file in freebsd? (apart from the obvious reaon of - people shouldnt > > > delete files that they want to keep)... >=20 > > The filesystem isn't designed to allow it. >=20 > What would need to be in the filesystem to allow it? Surely there is a si= mple=20 > solution like a directory which could hold pointers to all 'un' linked fi= les?=20 > (however i have never hacked a file system so I dont know these things). There are probably a number of possibilities. Kris --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MKkgWry0BWjoQKURAkDaAJwIhDceWim9HslEeHje4BAuFY4qugCgszir gkDwXEwJjZ0rJf0Glr9kSe0= =hTLK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message