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Comment on Ask HN: I'd like an OS/FileSystem that Never Deletes Anything. Does it exist?

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I hope this hypothetical OS never needs to use a swap file.

More seriously, in a time of unobtrusive automated backups and dirt cheap storage space, why is this such an issue where you want to have this kind of system?

Domain OS had versioning filesystem. You could always load an older version of your file in the editor.

Something similar can be achieved today with a combination of autosaves or version saves at the application level as well as time machine backups at the OS level

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