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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:23:57 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
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Subject: Re: ext4 features
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On Sat 2006-07-08 13:19:52, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> 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? :-)

Well, that's okay :-).
								Pavel


























...of course, undelete is root-only operation, and one that should not
be taken lightly. You need to verify you got what you wanted at the end.
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