[OpenAFS] Re: Undelete support feedback request

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:38:07 PM -0500 Marcus Watts 
<mdw@umich.edu> wrote:

> Sidney Cammeresi <sac@cheesecake.org> posted the VMS way.
>
> Not that I'm advocating this is the right way (let alone
> have code that implements this), but here's how the same
> things could look in Unix:
>
> $ ls -F
> foo.txt
> $ ls foo.txt/*
> foo.txt/1  foo.txt/2  foo.txt/3  foo.txt/4  foo.txt/5

That's not really tenable.  Some operating systems do have objects that 
look like files from some angles and directories from others, but others 
have VFS layers that don't really allow for this.  I very much doubt that 
the linux dentry cache can handle an object which claims to be a file but 
has children, and even if it did, you'd have an interesting time dealing 
with files which have multiple links, since directories may not have 
multiple aliases in the dentry cache.

Now, replace 'ls foo.txt/*' with 'fs listdeleted foo.txt', and you're fine.


> At least there's no upper-case this way.

There's nothing inherently upper-case about VMS.  It has a case-insensitive 
filesystem, and defaults to listing filenames in upper case.  You'd see 
lots of upper-case in your example, too, if the file were named FOO.TXT.

-- Jeff