Deleted files recovery

DAVID BALAZIC (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 07:54:45 +0100 (MET)


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.

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.

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 !

This could be best implemented in the ext2 driver , but could be
doable as a libc solution too. Or even as some pre_load library.

Someone ? :-)

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