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SubjectRe: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?
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On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:24:50 CDT, Eric Sandeen said:
> Can you elaborate? Under what circumstances is log replay going to harm
> data? Do you mean that the installer mounts partitions, looking for
> what OS is installed? How is that harmful?

Another usage case that really wants to avoid the log replay is if you're
looking at an unknown disk image with a forensics CD such as Helix:

http://www.e-fense.com/helix/

Yes, good forensics always clones the disk image twice (the first clone being
used for nothing but creating second-gen clones for analysis), and in most
cases the forensic analyst can work around the fact that you *do* cause some
changes to the disk image by mounting. But sometimes, you'd rather be looking
at a possibly inconsistent image than replaying the log - particularly if
you're looking at a "seized and power plug pulled" image, and you actually
care about things that may have been in the log, like just-erased files.
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