On May 12, 2009 21:32 +0530, ranjith kannikara wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, ranjith kannikara > > <ranjithkannikara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I am a computer science engineering student. We have started a project > >> to make an application to recover deleted files from an ext3 > >> filesystem. For that we have a doubt . Can we edit the inode content? > >> ie the recovery will be robust if we could edit the inode contents and > >> give the pointer address manually or through a code. The inode is > >> being created in the kernel mode and is it possible to edit those > >> contents if the code is allowed to have the kernel mode permissions..? > > But we would like to know whether it is possible to edit the inode > because it will make the recovery easy and robust. ie he know the > details of the inode of the file which had been deleted is it possible > to edit the content of that inode with the pointers of the deleted > file.? Are you asking whether it is possible to modify the on-disk structure of the ext3 inode? Generally that is NOT allowed because it will of course break all existing filesystems if not done with extreme care. 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
