Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Mar 2002 04:02:35 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 zeros inode in directory entry when deleting files. |
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On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Paul Allen wrote:
> While helping a friend recover from a catastrophic "rm -rf" accident, > I discovered that deleted files have the inode number in their old > directory entries zeroed. This makes it impossible to match file > names with recovered files. I've verified this behavior on Mandrake > 8.1 with Mandrake's stock 2.4.8 kernel. In my kernel sources and > in the stock 2.4.8 sources, the function ext2_delete_entry() in > fs/ext2/dir.c has this line: > > dir->inode = 0; > > I've done some searching with Google for discussion of this feature.
Try "A Fast Filesystem for UNIX(tm)", by McKusick et.al.
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