Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sep 24, 2006 10:55 -0700, Stephen Samuel wrote: > > Having just spent a day trying to recover a deleted ext3 file > > for a friend, I'm wondering about this way of maintining > > undelete information in ext3, like is done for ext2: > > > > The last step in the deletion process would be to put back > > the (previously zeroed) block pointers. Since it gets logged > > to the journal, I _think_ that this should be safe. The worst > > that would happen is that, if the plug gets pulled in the > > middle of a file delete, the old block pointers would be > > unavailable -- I don't see this as a killer issue, since > > editing the filesystem to do an undelete should be considered an > > emergency operation anyways. > > I've written a couple of times the best way to do this, Your solution works only for small files. Big files must managed another way, like how I wrote on Sun, 1 Feb 2004 07:00:58 +0100 in the thread "Ext3 and undeletion - A way how it could work." But it semms, that the problem is not ideas on how to implement it, but in somebody just doing it ... I don't have the knowledge currently, else I would have done it already. Regards, Bodo _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
