Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:16:15 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: JacobRhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recover overwritten file Message-ID: <3E2FF92F.7070700@centtech.com> References: <BA54D6B8.19A6F%list@zettai.net> <1043295876.6598.207.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> <200301231600.52211.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
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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
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