>On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
>
>> I had it !
>> I just lost many man pages on my system due to problem with the
>> man-pages-1.21 package. ( described in a separate post )
>>
>> Deleted file recovery is a MUST !
>>
>> I know it has been discussed already, but it just hit me hard ...
>>
>> If there is a solution already ( except backups , I can not make a backup
>> before every write to the disk ! ) , please excuse my ignorance and point
>> me to the right information.
>
>daily incrementals keep you out of most trouble.
Read my next commentd below
>> How about this idea :
>>
>> Every file to be deleted should be moved to a special directory instead.
>> ( like 'mount-point/deleted-files/' )
>> This shouldn't be any slower than a normal delete.
>
>This would cause a serious performance hit on many kinds of servers. I can
>imagine it effectivly doubling the amount of time it takes to do expirerm
>on a news box.
It is not a server , it is my personal workstation.
Besides move is not slower than remove.
>> When the space is up on the disk , just delete some entries from
>> the 'deleted-files/' . In any order, I don't care.
>> This might induce some performance problems, but I could live with it.
>> Besides , make it an option !
>
>Seems like there are some security implications if you treat it just
>another directory in the filesystem, ie its world writable or it has some
>setuid parts to handle deletion of user files.
No, it is root-accessible only , like /etc/passwd , but users can
still change their passwords ...
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