undelete directory

Andreas Bauer baueran at in.tum.de
Thu Oct 31 17:03:01 EST 2002


> If it's an ext3 filesystem can you get the data back using the journal, or 
> does that only tell you which blocks the data was stored on? If so, you never 
> know your luck, maybe those blocks haven't been overwritten yet... 

Most journaling file systems store merely meta data.  Otherwise you'd
face serious performance issues.

Cheers,
Andi.

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