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SubjectRe: patch for fs/dcache race
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"linux kernel account writes"
|> On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Erik Andersen wrote:
|>
|> > Sounds like Linux just got undelete capabilities (independant of the
|> > filesystem even...) Very cool.
|> >
|> > -Erik
|> Only if the file is open, and will this work on non-ext2 fs?

That's the point. As long as the file is open, it's pointed to by some
/proc entry, and you would be able to read its contents from user space,
but not reconstruct its physical structure - so undelete would create
another file _with the same contents_, not at the same place.

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