I would believe that what would be desired is a non-permanent delete
in the r/w volume in which the file/directory would be marked with
a new attribute that means deleted but not reclaimed.

Files/directories would be automatically reclaimed as they bump up
against their quota.

New RPCs would be required to support the undelete operations:

 * purge all deleted but unclaimed files/dirs

 * undelete the specified file/dir

 * list files/dirs that can be undeleted

The undelete support should be configurable per volume.

A new pioctl would be provided to allow user tools to be implemented
that support the list, undelete, and purge operations.

Jeffrey Altman


Matt Benjamin wrote:
> Open to discussion, I think.  Hypothetically through a read-only
> filesystem path (per-volume?), with a purge RPC on (the volume?).
> 
> Matt
> 
> Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Matt Benjamin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm posting to ask how much interest there would be among AFS sites
>>> for a file undeletion mechanism in the fileserver.  Clearly, AFS
>>> users have less apparent need for such a feature given backup
>>> volumes, but the semantics are not the same.  Thoughts?
>>
>> What would the interface for it be?
>>
>> Derrick
>>
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