From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sander Subject: Re: Congratulations! we have got hash function screwed up Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:30:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20041230183046.GD5206@favonius> References: <77912E9FD42896419D1CEF15E1C397A58AFCF1@london.jaguarfreightservices.local> <20041230235911.4911a20c.hihone@bigpond.net.au> <87is6jpvdu.fsf@quasar.esben-stien.name> <20041230174732.GB5206@favonius> <87zmzvoeeo.fsf@quasar.esben-stien.name> Reply-To: sander@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zmzvoeeo.fsf@quasar.esben-stien.name> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Esben Stien Cc: sander@humilis.net, Matthias Andree , hihone@bigpond.net.au, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Esben Stien wrote (ao): > Sander writes: > > Next time it is not their mistake, but instead a broken harddisk. > > Undelete wont save them then. > > We got pretty good tools to restore from a hd with bad blocks. > > dd it, loop it, fsck it. I'm sure a friend of mine disagrees with you after paying big bucks to a Norway based disk recovery company after a disk crash and zero backups. A Dutch recovery company couldn't recover the disk. And restore from backup is always quicker and less stressful on the nerves. > > Or they just edited it instead of rm. > > This is handled in user space. Maybe in your situation. But in general I advice everybody to make backups. Might also be the reason nobody wrote a reiser4 undelete plugin yet.