i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!

[THUFIR HAWAT]

On 4/23/05, Robert Nichols <rnichols42 at comcast.net> wrote:
> bruce wrote:
[..]
> I fear that any attempt at undeletion is doomed to failure.  On an 
> ext3 file system, metadata is zeroed when a file is deleted, so 
> even if you find the deleted inodes, the lists of block numbers 
> won't be there any longer.  Yes, I just verified that on an ext3 file 
> system.  Successful undeletion is possible with ext2, but not with 
> ext3.
[..]

ext3 is "better" than ext2, I assume, because 3>2 ;)
Why, then, does ext2 have a feature ext3 lacks?


thanks,

Thufir