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2016 Aug 19
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e2find: new ext2/3/4 tool for fast directory entry iterations
...o no avail.
Since I'm mostly facing ext3 and ext4 filesystems, I wrote a tool
based on libe2fs which replaces the 'find /' part by directly going to
the ext data structures. It has been working great for me for several
months, and I've published it at https://github.com/bearstech/e2find
There's a data safety issue I'm not quite sure. I'm using libe2fs to
open read-only blockdevices which are mounted and actively written to.
It's obviously unsafe (not from the data-loss p.o.v., but from the
coherent-retrieved-data p.o.v.), but I've never encountered a situati...