How a file is deleted in ufs2?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:16:18AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:56:11 +1000 (EST)
> Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Scott Long wrote:
> > 
> > > IOW, there is no easy way to undelete a file.
> > 
> > This is currently true, except in the rare case where undelete(2) works.
> 
> Oh, so it has worked for someone.  I always wonder why we have this
> functionality when I have never been able to make it work.  Using
> rm(1) that is.

DESCRIPTION
     The undelete() system call attempts to recover the deleted file named by
     path.  Currently, this works only when the named object is a whiteout in
     a union file system. 

Kris
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