Re: recover deleted file

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 17:40:58 UTC
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 12:36 PM Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> thanks for your response.
>
> Would someone from the foundation step in and put it in GSOC ideas?
>
> kirk@ - would it be possible for you to do it ? :)
>

Anyone with wiki access is able to add ideas, any student eligible for
GSoC is able to propose ideas (regardless of whether we've pitched the
ideas on our wiki or not).

Thanks,

Kyle Evans

>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 7:26 PM Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:
>>
>> > okay...
>> > all seems very time consuming operations!!
>>
>> Yes
>>
>> > There should be an os "undelete" as happens in NTFS for example.. which is
>> > very fast and can be done also with extra tools without a hassle.
>>
>> A WIBNI (Wouldnt It Be Nice If) for Unix FS's for as long as I can remember
>> (decades) but no one's ever done it.
>>
>> Ways to get it done:
>>   Get it listed as a Google Summer Of Code project for FreeBSD, Or
>>
>>   Get your employer to help pay for it, eg chip in with other BSD
>>   user companies to pay some money to FreeBSD Foundation, & get
>>   them to pay for it to be developed.
>>
>>   Or hire are an individual freelance BSD Consultant to do it,
>>         There's a global index here http://berklix.com/consultants/
>>
>>   & a mail list that's moderated jobs@freebsd
>>
>>   Some author(s) of BSD FFS are on list fs@, Kirk is one name springs
>>   to mind ? Some freelancers on fs@ I recall.
>>
>>   IMO Would be a fun job if funded :-)
>>
>> >
>> > for now I got backup from last day .. caused me a lot of troubles, not say
>> > legal ones, but I passed the point to hold the machine down.
>> >
>> > any advice?
>> >
>> > Maybe UFS developer would do a rework so latest deleted inodes would put in
>> > a "recycle bin" (maybe with a sysctl or whatever) for say one day (or any
>> > other configurable sysctl) and allow to recover quickly or "force delete /
>> > empty recycle bin" , rather than delete and give back space immediately for
>> > use and destroy possibility to restore.
>> >
>> > my 2 cents.
>> >
>> > Sami
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Julian Stacey  http://berklix.com/jhs/ http://StolenVotes.UK
>> Kill / remove Putin to stop him killing & provoking world war.
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>
>
> --
> Sami Halabi
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