From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 5:55:59 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 8513037B405 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:55:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F38843FAF for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:55:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id h0NEGUx4092250; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:16:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0NEGSNG092243; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:16:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3E2FF92F.7070700@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:16:15 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JacobRhoden Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recover overwritten file References: <1043295876.6598.207.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> <200301231600.52211.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 JacobRhoden 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)... > > is there some philisopical reason that it shouldnt be at least an option? or > is it just due to no one bothering? perhaps it could be disabled by default, > but enabled on a per file system basis via fstab? (ie the /home partion). > > Yes I know people should make backups, but there are always going to be idiot > out there and it may save some admin's some time? I think if it mattered that much, the admin would write wrappers for the basic tools (like cp, rm, mv, etc), but I see your point. Granted that writing wrappers doesn't completely solve the problem, it would reduce it. Maybe someone who writes filesystem code for FreeBSD (UFS,UFS2,FFS people?) would know if there is a technical reason for this.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message