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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:08:13 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 and undeletion
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On Feb 24, 2002  21:27 -0600, Steven Walter wrote:
> After unintentionally deleting some file, I noticed what appears to be
> an incosistency (or at least a change) in ext3.  Running debugfs and
> executing the command "lsdel", I saw no inodes listed since I last ran
> the partition as ext2.  Does ext3 not add its deleted inodes to whatever
> list ext2 does?  And can this be fixed without compromising the speed or
> data-integrity of ext3?

Known problem.  Apparently difficult to fix, unfortunately.  It's not so
much that ext2 adds deleted inodes to a list, as that it simply marks the
inode "deleted" and doesn't overwrite any of the inode data on the disk.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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