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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UnDelete & DiskSalv Question
Message-ID: <2908@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 88 22:02:40 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) wrote:
>In the current file system, the header in question has its type
>or'ed with t.deleted and MAY be written to disk in this state

I've never seen it get written out.  t.deleted = 1, BTW.

>In FFS the t.deleted thingy has been removed

How about t.long?  Was there ever any support for that?

>If the file was closer to the root than the current bitmap then the
>chances are it will be zonked

This isn't an issue on floppies, where the bitmap gets allocated at
format & doesn't get deallocated, since there's only one.  As Steve
suggested, it also isn't an issue in FFS, where the bitmap is
pre-allocated, based on the size of the partition, at format time.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
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