Re: Deleted files recovery

Feuer (feuer@his.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:52:29 -0400


 

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

Snippity snippity snap

>  
> However, it's also worth noting that once we have btree directory
> support in ext2fs, it becomes much, much easier to support deleted
> files.  Essentially it becomes trivial to maintain the namespace for
> deleted files: having an ordered data structure for directories means
> that we can very rapidly locate all of the inode versions, current and
> deleted, associated with any given name.
>
> --Stephen

What's btree directory support?  Something with binary trees?  Sounds strange. 
Where can I read about it?

David Feuer
feuer@his.com
dfeuer@mbhs.edu

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