On Mar 15, 2008 20:59 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Carlo Wood has demonstrated that it's possible to recover deleted > files from the journal. Something that will make this easier is if we > can put the time of the commit into commit block. Note that we'd still be a lot further ahead undelete- and performance-wise if we avoided overwriting the indirect blocks in the first place... As it is, this is only really useful if you pull the plug after the delete. No harm in doing it, but won't help you recover as much as you could. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html