Re: ext4 features

Krzysztof Halasa
2006-07-08T11:19:54Z

Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

> Why not? You use libextfs or how is it called to read the file from
> the disk directly (read-only access), then you write it back using
> regular calls.
>
> Of course, you can end up with "deleted" data being corrupted if
> kernel reused the area before undelete, or while you were doing
> undelete... but that's expected. They were _deleted_, right?

What if the "undeleted" file contained /etc/shadow because someone
was changing password at the time? :-)
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Krzysztof Halasa