Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 1999 04:35:34 +0000 | From | Dancer <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 defragmentation |
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"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: > > 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.
Ah, of course. You'd have to avoid the thing getting moved around subsequently by defrags and such, but yes...I see what you have in mind.
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