From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964782AbWGHLTy (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:19:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964790AbWGHLTy (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:19:54 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:32203 "EHLO khc.piap.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964782AbWGHLTx (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 07:19:53 -0400 To: Pavel Machek Cc: Bill Davidsen , Benny Amorsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext4 features References: <20060703205523.GA17122@irc.pl> <1151960503.3108.55.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <44A9904F.7060207@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20060703232547.2d54ab9b.diegocg@gmail.com> <44AB3E4C.2000407@tmr.com> <20060707141030.GC4239@ucw.cz> <20060707213030.GA5393@ucw.cz> <20060708105532.GH1700@elf.ucw.cz> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:19:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20060708105532.GH1700@elf.ucw.cz> (Pavel Machek's message of "Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:55:32 +0200") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek 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