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Re: Suggestion for rm(1)


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Suggestion for rm(1)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:48 +0100
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Bob Proulx <address@hidden> writes:

> But as time has passed I think the logic of it has flipped.  Now
> almost everyone uses a journaling filesystem.  Now probably the most
> common filesystem used by people is the ext3 with ext4 becoming more
> popular in the future.  (Not to slight xfs and others. :-) In ext3 as
> I understand it (http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html)
> this is much more difficult because the block pointers are zero'd out.

Incidentally, due to the increasing use of SSD and their tendency not to
reuse recently used blocks it may become again easier in future to
recover data.

Andreas.

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