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How do other filesystems avoid this? It seems like a hard problem in general.
by cout 5y ago
How do other filesystems avoid this? It seems like a hard problem in general.
- formerly_proven 5y agoMany other filesystems have one or more arrays for metadata. Sometimes these are formatted like files themselves. So a tool to recover it only has to guess at those contiguous arrays, instead of considering essentially any block metadata.