Does Hammer have more than one copy of meta data

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Jul 14 22:14:24 PDT 2015


:Hi,
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:I am refering to the problem mentioned in BTRFS here
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:http://forensicfocus.com/News/article/sid=2458/
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:Thankyou
:
:Siju

    Not sure what that research is supposed to prove.  No copy-on-write
    filesystem should ever try to modify deleted data OR meta-data in-place
    until the block is actually reused for something else.  It would be a
    complete waste of I/O, waste of SSD erase cycles, and waste of time.
    A data recovery tool algorithmically designed for a more traditional
    copy-over filesystem is not going to work well on a COW filesystem,
    period.

						-Matt




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