Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:18:30 -0800 | From | "Jeffrey B. Siegal" <> | Subject | Re: Filesystem optimization.. |
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>A human being might be able to deduce that a certain block was a >directory, and then work forwards and backwards to recover the some or >all of the filesystem, but it would require an expert, and it's not the >sort of work that could be automated.
Make the directory blocks identifiable with a unique (per directory), identifyable fingerprint at the beginning of each directory block, and a program should be able to identify them and string them back together.
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