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Mike Williams (mikew@net-link.net) wrote:

: Of course if you don't delete things by accident then it's irrelevant how 
: difficult it is to recover them.  Isn't a "temporary delete" why the Amiga has 
: always had a trashcan?  Even with OS1.2 and the original file system?  Granted, 
: accidents happen, but it's hardly the file system's responsibility to try to 
: outsmart the user for their own good.  
: 
: An undelete feature is nice, but it's certainly not something you should expect 
: from your file system.  Actually, it could be a disadvantage if you can't turn 
: it off.  What happens with AFS if the reason you're deleting stuff is to make 
: room on a crowded hard drive?  Does it just move to deldir so you don't gain 
: any space?  I don't relish the idea of having to delete everything twice to 
: recover the space on my hard drive.
 
Not true.  The details of the deleted files are kept.  The space is FREED !
If when you come the undelete the space has been reallocated - Tuff !

AFS uses a round robin allocation scheme so the files may stay a bit but there
are no guarantees.

I hope this clears up ant confussion ?

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Mark Harden - Keeper of the independant AFS FAQ