Re: Filesystem optimization..
Jeffrey B. Siegal (jbs@quiotix.com)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:18:30 -0800
>A human being might be able to deduce that a certain block was a
>directory, and then work forwards and backwards to recover the some or
>all of the filesystem, but it would require an expert, and it's not the
>sort of work that could be automated.
Make the directory blocks identifiable with a unique (per directory),
identifyable fingerprint at the beginning of each directory block, and a
program should be able to identify them and string them back together.