On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 07:46:09PM +0100, Esben Stien wrote:
> 
> It would be too expensive to do all this backup'ing in userspace. When
> a file gets deleted, a proper procedure to retrieve it would be to
> umount the filesystem, scan it for the data which was removed and then
> put it back in the tree again. It's not like reiserfs overwrites this
> data, it's still there, so why should there be an artificial barrier
> to getting this data back?.

You're using the wrong tool for the job.
For what you're asking for you want Plan 9 and its
wormfs.

Thanks for playing.  

-- 
Chris Dukes
Warning: Do not use the reflow toaster oven to prepare foods after
it has been used for solder paste reflow. 
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