Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:11:40 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 defragmentation |
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:44:19 +0000 From: dancer@zeor.simegen.com
Assuming your superblock got trashed, would it be possible to get at the backup if it were a file in the filesystem?
Yes, because I was assuming that mke2fs would arrange to place the superblock at a fixed, known location. The file in the filesystem was merely simply the way to reserve the blocks necessary for the backup, and to give a way for the user to reclaim those blocks if for some reason they were so desparate for space they couldn't give up those 12-20k of backup blocks.
- Ted
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