Re: ext3 and undeletion

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:08:13 -0700

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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