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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] home, end ^h^j^k^l 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 May 2001 08:25:20 +0200."
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From: Scott Merrilees <Sm@itntl.bhp.com.au>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:35:33 +1000
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>nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es:
>The directory entry could be kept allocated like a zombie. disk space
>is cheap.  Of course this only handles the top of a deleted hierarchy,
>but for the purposes of knowing who deleted what it may suffice.

Then what do you do when the same file is created again?
Associate all the old info with the new file?
Rename the old file?  How do you handle collisions?

If you really want to know who deleted a file, wouldn't it be easier to
just maintain a log somewhere?

Sm