> Kurt Huwig wrote:
> > I looked through dejanews and found Rogier's patch. It did not patch in
> > directly, because the sources have changed a little bit, so I did it by
> > hand, together with minor changes:
>
> Kurt, there should be a followup that had a slightly different patch.
> There is an attribute bit that says "this file needs safe delete",
> which is currently unused. I didn't know that, so I wrote it without
> using that bit. Someon else volunteerd "but there is a bit, for which
> you just made the implementation".
After some time, I found the patch. From the ext2-sources:
/*
* Inode flags
*/
#define EXT2_SECRM_FL 0x00000001 /* Secure deletion */
#define EXT2_UNRM_FL 0x00000002 /* Undelete */
#define EXT2_COMPR_FL 0x00000004 /* Compress file */
Darren refers to the 'Undelete' flag not to 'Secure deletion' which is the
opposite in my view (overwrite the whole file before deletion).
This is indeed a Good Thing (tm) iff there was an EASY tool to set the
'u'-flag. The only one I found was the 'ext2ed'-tool which is not very
handy. So, where can I can an easy tool for changing this flag?
Darren says the undelete-flag is inherited for subdirectories, but just
for creation, I guess.
I will incorporate Darren's patch into your patch and put it on my
webpage.
Still, something like this has to be in a HOWTO/README whatever in place
of the current 'it is worked on'.
Kurt
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