Trash mechanism

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi
> - to implement this at the FS level, so there is a
> userspace API to 
> locate deleted files and undelete them, with space
> being selected for 
> reuse based on the age of the deleted files and then
> actually deleted 
> atomically
> 

this seems to be NOT possible in the near future if
ever. Linux supports many different filesystems and we
need a higher level api for use in the desktop
environment anyway. You can try pushing this idea
possibly in reiserfs with a plugin mechanism.
convincing multiple distros and filesystem writers
across operating systems to implement this is not
likely to work in a uniform manner


> OR
> 
> - to have a freedesktop API specifically for
> trashing files, whereby 
> trashing is something you only do for user documents
> and not for system 
> level files.
> 
this seems to be a much better idea

regards
Rahul Sundaram


	
		
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