> Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
> >How about moving the deleted file into a directory .wastebasket/XXXXX,
> >where XXXXX is the inode number of the directory the file was in at
> >the moment it was deleted. If that directory has the same permissions
>
> That implies that deleting files could potentially increase the space
> requirement on the disk (not good). Creating a directory is an "expensive"
> operation (uses non-negligible space and cpu/wallclock time).
>
> I don't think those are desirable properties of an unlink() operator.
Hmm, well it dosn't happen if .wastebasket dosn't exist, (I would have a
partition wide one anyway), and a hardlink before unlinking the link that
we've (unlink()'s) been asked to remove shouldn't be much overhead, and
no additional disk space ....
> --
> Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
>
Bryn
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