Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext2/3/4: enable "undeletable" file attribute.

[Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃker]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 23:16, James Hunt wrote:
> > ... it's not honoured by the kernel:
> > 
> >  > rm /tmp/wibble       # yikes! this should fail!!
>
> I always thought of the term 'undeletable' to mean that you can
> undelete the file (restore it) after it has been deleted. Of course,
> this is not implemented either, but it means something very different
> than what your patch does.

That is indeed what the documented (but not implemented) meaning is.
>From chattr(1):

|       When a file with the âuâ attribute set is deleted, its contents
|       are saved. This allows the user to ask for its undeletion.

So the meaning is undelete-able, not un-deletable.

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ilmari
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