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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:26:38 -0800
From:      Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recovering Lost Inode? 
Message-ID:  <199710280426.UAA24133@tnt.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:31:26 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027215943.1224C-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> 

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>i've always wondered why when a file was deleted there was an intelegent
>way of moving it to a volitile directory where it could be overwritten at
>any time, but if moved out of that dir it would be marked non-volitile
>again....

Was that intended as "intelligent" or "inelegant"? :-)

>(maybe i've used win95 once too many...)

I won't bore you with the short scripts that provide this behavior on
UNIX.  If that's the file deletion paradigm that you like, it's easy
to do...

"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
 that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn

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Ted Faber                                                faber@isi.edu
USC/ISI Computer Scientist                   http://www.isi.edu/~faber
(310) 822-1511 x190      PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc



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