Re: undeletion at filesystem level or in extra filesystem?

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:

> Could be. I think it would make sense to start by outlining the
> filesystem interface (rpc:s for listing old versions/deleted files,
> opening or recovering an older version (probably, linking it to a new
> name should be an optional part of the process?), hard deletion (which
> should not just unlink the file but also overwrite the appropriate
> bits on the underlying store) etc.

At this point, it seems like the filesystem already supports
everything we need, but we need a set of conventions about how to use
it, so that programs like rm don't actually issue dir_unlink calls,
but do something more clever.

Thomas