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When a deleted file takes 20 mins from your maintenance, but a year of your life (theregister.com)
22 points by sohkamyung on July 7, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


Many years ago I worked with Data General minis running AOS/VS. We asked one of DG's gurus if there was a way to undelete a file, and he said that the best bet was to crash the system at once, and see whether FIXUP brought it back.


Break on old sub machines is something I totally forgot about. I remember it used to halt when you plugged in the keyboard, which was super annoying when you had to use one.


Break on old sub machines is something I totally forgot about. I remember it used to halt when you plugged in the keyboard.


Did /proc/fd not exist back then or did these guys just not know about it? ;-)


TIL what lost+found is for. That was some quick thinking.


Sybase used file system files rather than raw devices?




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