Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011)

Re:Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011) by keenerd on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @04:23PM (#6129773)

> I suppose every journaling FS already includes everything necessary for it.

Depends. Ext seems to use a F̶I̶F̶O̶ LIFO for the empty block list. It can make recovering data more tricky.

Last time I tried to recover some deleted data, it was about an hour after the delete took place. The recently deleted blocks were the first over-written by normal background tasks and everything I wanted to save was gone.

Every file more than a few hours old was easily recovered, right back to projects I had deleted a year previously.

edit: Thanks.

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Re:Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011) by colanderman on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @04:25PM (#6129790)

I think you mean LIFO? A FIFO would imply that your old projects (first in) would be re-used soonest (first out).

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