[OpenAFS] Undelete support feedback request

Jeffrey Altman jaltman@secure-endpoints.com
Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:49:52 -0500


Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

>>> Life gets interesting when multiple files with the same name have been
>>> deleted, but maybe you don't care about that (I would).
>>
>> Not so interesting.  The function to list the entries reports multiple
>> files with the same name.
> 
> ... and how do you pick which one you're undeleting?
> I mean, I know how to do this at the RPC layer - you just undelete by
> FID. But what is the UI going to look like?

You undelete by timestamp and size.  If we had multiple stream support
than on some OSs there would even be additional metadata available for
assisting in the user selection.

Jeffrey Altman