From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ranjith kannikara Subject: Help to edit inode content Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 21:09:12 +0530 Message-ID: <20aa8c370905120839r5b54106eve88af214985acc59@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.232]:61790 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757338AbZELPpJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 11:45:09 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so37415rvb.1 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 08:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, I am a computer science engineering student. We have started a project to make an application to recover deleted files from an ext3 filesystem. For that we have a doubt . Can we edit the inode content? ie the recovery will be robust if we could edit the inode contents and give the pointer address manually or through a code. The inode is being created in the kernel mode and is it possible to edit those contents if the code is allowed to have the kernel mode permissions..? Regards Ranju.. -- http://www.ranjithkannikara.blogspot.com/