On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:43:01PM +0800, Kevin - KD Micro Software spoke thusly:
>Everything I've read today says that ext3 zeros the inodes as soon as they >are deleted, rather than just marking them as deleted but leaving them >alone. If this was ext2 it would be a lot simpler, but it's not. And >before anyone says it, this machine does have a backup, but the particular >directory the person was working in does not, because it was in a place it >shouldn't have been. Nothing we can do about that now. If you check the ext3 mailing list archives at redhat.com, Stephen Tweedie has addressed this issue a couple of times and IIRC its exactly as you said. The inodes are zeroed upon deletion, thus its a goner. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
