Making rm undoable

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <7360 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bernsten at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>If UNIX were the type of system where version numbering were possible
>(oops, I mean common, really I do) then the problem of file deletion
>would be trivial. But version numbering is not possible (oops, common)
>in UNIX.

It's not common, but it has been done.

Dave Korn and/or I are going to present a paper called "The 3-D File System"
at the next summer Usenix conference in Baltimore. If you listen to
the presentation or read the paper in the proceedings, I think you'll
realize it adds version numbering and more to the Unix file system.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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