Subject: -W flag in rm, undelete, "whiteout"'d files ?
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Netbsd Mailing List <netbsd@vu.vu.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/23/1997 21:18:20
the man page for "rm" talks about the "-W" flag, which is supposed to
recover files covered by whiteouts. what are they? it also references
"undelete(2)", for which there does not appear to be a man page.
is this a real method of undeleting files? if so, is there a way to
make sure a file cannot be undeleted?