Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:08:13 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: ext3 and undeletion |
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On Feb 24, 2002 21:27 -0600, Steven Walter wrote: > After unintentionally deleting some file, I noticed what appears to be > an incosistency (or at least a change) in ext3. Running debugfs and > executing the command "lsdel", I saw no inodes listed since I last ran > the partition as ext2. Does ext3 not add its deleted inodes to whatever > list ext2 does? And can this be fixed without compromising the speed or > data-integrity of ext3?
Known problem. Apparently difficult to fix, unfortunately. It's not so much that ext2 adds deleted inodes to a list, as that it simply marks the inode "deleted" and doesn't overwrite any of the inode data on the disk.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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