[Gllug] Undelete...?

[David Irvine]

> 
> Novell would keep deleted files around for weeks if you had enough empty disk 
> space (and the right config). I seem to remember it would keep multiple 
> versions of old files around if you wanted it to.
> 
> Actually, given the size of drives today, it's something that should be 
> default on every distro - like other posters have said, we've all done it.
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It would be a nice feature, but there are also security implications, if you delete a sensitive file, and its not actually deleted, somebody could then gain access to that data. Obviously there are ways around this such as using utilities like wipe (Which writes the file with random data a few times then deletes it)

Something I always thought would make a very cool feature of a file system is to integrate many of the cvs features, so that when you save a file, you could revert to older verions - so that when you accidently mess up your sed operation, and obliterate the wrong file etc, you could just revert to the one three saves ago, it would be excellent for something like /etc/ but then, thats why we have cvs....

Regards

David


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