> Would there be any interest in a patch that added undelete support to
> the VFS. the idea would be that when one unlink's a file, instead of it
> being deleted, it is "moved" to "/.undelete/d_put path of dentry",
> coupled with a daemon that manages the size (maintains a quota per uid
> by deleting old files).
>
> It would appear to be an easy CONFIG level option, as it would just be
> do this, or normal unlink(), and would work for every fs, as well as not
> needing and LD_PRELOAD.
This has been implemented as a shared library which you can preload. It is
a wrapper around glibc's unlink() function which moves stuff to a trash
directory. This is probably better done this way in user space because it
allows the user quite a lot of freedom to decide which files get saved.
http://m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash/
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