Re: ext3 and undeletion

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 13:00:42 EST


Rose, Billy wrote:

>
> My company can tolerate 0% loss of data (which is why I raised this issue).
>

There is no such thing as 0% loss of data. You can get some amount of
security with backups, snapshots (really useful!) or undelete, but you
can *NEVER* guarantee 0% loss of data... consider the case when a
(l)user overwrites (not just deletes) a newly created file.

        -hpa

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