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SubjectRe: ext3 and undeletion
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> another inode after the trunc op would break unix semantics.  In order to
> work, you'd have to use a new inode (in .undelete, of course), copy, then do
> the actual trunc call.
> This would make truncation expensive, whereas before it was pretty fast.
> Modifying unlink will probably suffice.

You would need to hook the truncate/unlink paths in the file system. If
you are doing it within the fs it becomes cheap (at least for ext2) - as
you can simply reassign the data blocks to a new inode, stuff the new inode
into the magic "stuff we deleted" directory and continue.

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