Re: reiserFS undeletion

Martin Eriksson (nitrax@giron.wox.org)
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:52:42 +0100


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gniazdowski" <refuse7@poczta.fm>
To: "Hans Reiser" <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: reiserFS undeletion

> Dnia sob 19. styczeń 2002 17:41, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> > we only log metadata.
>
> I know. Butt if i delete some file, it dosnt mean i set zero on sectors on
> disk. So imvho all is needet is meta data.

Yes, but (not butt =) if you have done some other file operations after the
delete, your deleted file might have been overwritten by another file.
Especially if you have little free space on your hard disk.

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