[KLUG Members] help for longtime (but novice) user who finally managed to misuse rm...?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I thought the point of a journaling file system was (at least partly) to 
> make it easy to see what has happened to files?!

Nope, journaling is not an audit system.  File-system journaling exists
primarily to ensure operations upon filesystem meta-data is accomplished
atomically, and secondly to enhance performance by making life easier
for the elevator.

Back when meta-data was not transactional large file-systems where a
real drag.
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