Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:14:13 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: How a file is deleted in ufs2? Message-ID: <20060421181413.GA68087@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060421012537.0949ac45.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <1144687418.11014.9.camel@diegows> <443AFB03.6060301@samsco.org> <20060411210858.G46778@delplex.bde.org> <20060413041618.6aa7d8c7.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20060414064727.GA77608@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060421012537.0949ac45.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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--/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:25:37AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:47:27 -0400 > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:16:18AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:56:11 +1000 (EST) > > > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > > >=20 > > > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Scott Long wrote: > > > >=20 > > > > > IOW, there is no easy way to undelete a file. > > > >=20 > > > > This is currently true, except in the rare case where undelete(2) w= orks. > > >=20 > > > Oh, so it has worked for someone. I always wonder why we have this > > > functionality when I have never been able to make it work. Using > > > rm(1) that is. > >=20 > > DESCRIPTION > > The undelete() system call attempts to recover the deleted file na= med by > > path. Currently, this works only when the named object is a white= out in > > a union file system.=20 >=20 > What it fails to do is tell users what a "whiteout" is. At least > it was very unobvious to me while reading the manual page. But it's still quite clear that it still only applies to union filesystems, even if you have to dig deeper to find out how it works in that case. Kris --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFESSD0Wry0BWjoQKURAjQgAKDhF+jVKz7Zd41HebFl8iwXxVwOlwCfZFj4 Vt7Vja+jdqaKviVSRWlsqPc= =uwxd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft--
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