Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ext4 features | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:19:52 +0200 |
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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? :-) -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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