🚀 go-pugleaf

SaskPower (spc@leroy.cc.uregina.ca) wrote:
: I personally don't think Theodore T'so should be spending time
: with an undelete to ext2 filesystem to handle this, as the above is
: so easy to confiugure to your needs and would be more reliable
: than changes to a filesystem... ext2 is just GREAT the way it is... 8^)

Easy, but not a total solution.  Please bear in mind as you read the
following that I'm a great fan of UNIX since I started hacking Sun-3s
back in 1988... o.k. I guess that makes me a UNIX newbie, but I started
programming back in the RT-11 days.  I get along just wonderfully with
the "rm is forever" philosophy, on the other hand, I keep reasonable
backups.  I think the UNIX crowd could stand to glance over the
"Accidents Will Happen" section of UNIX-Haters Handbook.  Yes the book
has a lot of whining, but there are some important things to note:
perhaps the most important things being that rm is not the only program
which calls unlink(2), and further unlink(2) is not the only way to mess
your files.  Some people LIKE the VMS style file versioning, and I think
it would be a good thing to have AS AN OPTION.  For my taste, rm(1) is
just fine.

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