Messages in this thread | | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: patch for fs/dcache race | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:48:55 +0200 (MET DST) |
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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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