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<H2><A NAME="sec-easier"></A> <A NAME="s12">12. Will this get easier in future?</A></H2>
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<P>Yes. In fact, I believe it already has. Although as of this writing,
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current stable kernels (in the 2.0.x series) zero indirect blocks, this does
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not apply to development kernels in the 2.1.x series, nor to the stable
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2.2.x series. As I write this on 2 February 1999, kernel 2.2.1 was released
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a few days ago; Linux vendors are likely to start producing distributions
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containing and supporting 2.2.x kernels a month or two from now.
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<P>Once the indirect-zeroing limitation has been overcome in the production
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kernels, a lot of my objections to the technique of modifying inodes by hand
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will disappear. At the same time, it will also become possible to use the
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<CODE>dump</CODE> command in <CODE>debugfs</CODE> on long files, and to conveniently use
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other undeletion tools.
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