Re: Undelete files on ext3 ??

[John Bradford]

> > | > > What I was thinking of was a virtual device that allocated a new
> > | > > sector whenever an old one was overwritten - kind of like a journaled
> > | > > filesystem, but without the filesystem, (I.E. just the journal) :-).
> > | >
> > | > $ DIR FOO.TXT;*
> > | > FOO.TXT;1   FOO.TXT;2   FOO.TXT;2
> > | >
> > | > VMS-style file versioning, anybody? ;)
> > |
> > | Brilliant!
> > 
> > re-read the archives from 6-8 months ago.
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101914252421742&w=2

So basically the idea already already exists:

http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/katie/

Brilliant!  :-)

John.