Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I'd usually agree with that, but - if we have an opportunity to make users love ZFS even more, why not at least investigate it. A perfect example might be exactly what I did on one occasion, where I copied a bunch of photos off a CF card. I then reformatted the CF card, and cleaned up the the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread James Dickens
On 2/20/07, Nathan Kroenert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I, for one, would love to have similar functionality that we had in good old netware, where we could 'salvage' deleted files. The concept was that when the files were deleted, they were not actually removed, nor were the all important ref

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I, for one, would love to have similar functionality that we had in good old netware, where we could 'salvage' deleted files. The concept was that when the files were deleted, they were not actually removed, nor were the all important references to the files to allow undeleting them. In t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Casper . Dik
>Got it, my assumption is undelete would only act on deleted files. >Truncating, changing the files data are not delete operations (unlink). >You are starting to talk about versioning at that point -- in which case >this issue becomes way more complicated. Applications may do multiple >writes to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Wade . Stuart
> > > > > > There's a fundamental problem with an undelete facility. > > > > > >$ echo > FILE > > >$ undelete FILE > > >cannot undelete FILE: file exists > > > > > > Why the assumption that an undelete command would be brain dead -- this IS > > Unix. =) Seems like a low bar issue,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:14:24AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/20/2007 08:10:59 AM: > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > > Hello Jeremy, > > > > > > Monday, February 19, 2007, 1:58:18 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > >> Someth

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/20/2007 08:10:59 AM: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > Hello Jeremy, > > > > Monday, February 19, 2007, 1:58:18 PM, you wrote: > > > > >> Something similar was proposed here before and IIRC someone even has a > > >> working i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Jeremy, > > Monday, February 19, 2007, 1:58:18 PM, you wrote: > > >> Something similar was proposed here before and IIRC someone even has a > >> working implementation. I don't know what happened to it. > > JT> That would

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-20 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jeremy, Monday, February 19, 2007, 1:58:18 PM, you wrote: >> Something similar was proposed here before and IIRC someone even has a >> working implementation. I don't know what happened to it. JT> That would be me. AFAIK, no one really wanted it. The problem that it JT> solves can be solv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-19 Thread Jeremy Teo
Something similar was proposed here before and IIRC someone even has a working implementation. I don't know what happened to it. That would be me. AFAIK, no one really wanted it. The problem that it solves can be solved by putting snapshots in a cronjob. -- Regards, Jeremy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-19 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Dennis, Monday, February 19, 2007, 12:20:49 AM, you wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Calvin Liu wrote: >> >>> I want to run command "rm Dis*" in a folder but mis-typed a space in it >>> so it became "rm Dis *". Unfortunately I had pressed the return button >>> before I noticed the mistake. So

[zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-help] How to recover from "rm *"?

2007-02-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Calvin Liu wrote: > >> I want to run command "rm Dis*" in a folder but mis-typed a space in it >> so it became "rm Dis *". Unfortunately I had pressed the return button >> before I noticed the mistake. So you all know what happened... :( :( :( > > Ouch! > >> How can I get th