Re:Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:04AM
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Deletion by flag is very common in IT and presumably has been since the first undelete program was created. It's not a Facebook thing.
Some mail programs for a long time have had a soft-delete that requires an expunging process to create compete removal.
In an IT setting you can delete a blob from a db, but it might still be on disk, and it will still be in caches, on user machines, and in backups/archives.
Re:Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
by mic47 on Sunday April 01, 2018 @07:35AM
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Because FB deletes by flag so that content disappear instantly and then start the actual process of deletion (which can take while because of stuff like backup, cols storage)...
Some mail programs for a long time have had a soft-delete that requires an expunging process to create compete removal.
In an IT setting you can delete a blob from a db, but it might still be on disk, and it will still be in caches, on user machines, and in backups/archives.