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homebrewertoday at 2:15 AM0 repliesview on HN

That undo program is called nilfs2, which unfortunately never became popular. I'll simply quote the kernel docs:

> NILFS2 is a log-structured file system (LFS) supporting continuous snapshotting. In addition to versioning capability of the entire file system, users can even restore files mistakenly overwritten or destroyed just a few seconds ago.

https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/nilfs2.html

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NILFS2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS