A nice Security Enhancement For SuSE
The one thing I really miss from Netware which Novel could port to SuSE is Salvage. For those who don't know, Netware offered a Salvage option where files erased or overwritten could be recovered because Netware would attempt to not write over that same location, preferring instead the least recently used location where the file would fit. (Adhering to theory that unused disk space was wasted disk space). Therefore, UNTIL the system actually needed the space, you could go to the console and recover recently deleted files. Obviously, it didn't help for files discovered missing today, but which were deleted 2 months ago. Files that grew larger but remained in place were not salvageable, so databases and mbox files couldn't be recovered this way, but the document you deleted by accident usually was recoverable if you attended to it right away. Would such a thing be possible in any linux file system? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, John Andersen wrote:
[... undelete for Linux Distributions ...]
AFAIK there are already numerous(?) loadlibs which patch the according system routines to move the "deleted" files to special locations instead of really deleting them until they are deleted in the special location. Maybe consult something like freshmeat.net with appropriate keywords... <sigh/> Regards Henning Hucke -- The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. -- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
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