Re: Drawbacks of implementing undelete entirely in user space
Andrew E. Mileski (aem@nic.ott.hookup.net)
Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:40:59 -0400 (EDT)
> How about moving the deleted file into a directory .wastebasket/XXXXX,
> where XXXXX is the inode number of the directory the file was in at
> the moment it was deleted. If that directory has the same permissions
> as the original, you do not even need special tools to undelete or
> "empty trash".. a shell script or perl script will do! Also, this works
> recursively and you can restore everything if you undelete in reverse
> order.
>
> Ofcourse the directory structure under .wastbasket stays at max
> 1 level deep. In every directory you can then type "lsrm" and it
> will just do something like
I've not applied this patch (or followed this thread in depth), so
please excuse my ignorance.
How are files kept track of in the '.wastebasket'?
Is there a file the reports the full path name of the file?
Is the removal date/time reported?
These are things that I think would be useful.
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