[ale] deleting files and recovering them

[Pete Hardie]

I think it's a metaphor problem.  M$ has the littel trash can icon, so people 
treat it as a
real trashcan - if you throw something away, and decide a few moments later that 
you need it
back, you can reach into the trash can and retrieve it.  UNIX, however does not 
throw away a file - it erases it.  If you erase some writing, you can't easily 
unerase it - you must rewrite it.

So our challenge is to replace the trashcan icon with a shredder icon on the 
Linux desktop.


On another tangent, has anyone written a file system that recycles blocks on a 
FIFO basis, so that accidentally deleted files would have at least some time 
before the blaocks they contained would be reused?


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Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
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Scientific Atlanta, Digital Video Services Group



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