From 6a9222996d2f6fb574c3ce928739cb43bebc2178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: robi Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:23:35 +0000 Subject: versions stuff 0.2.0-pv2 --- README | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 9432047..573804c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -39,6 +39,27 @@ Now you can test ext4magic with the deleted copy. A few responses: working or not working, the last words before a crash, or what file types are ok and which not, can help to improve the features and to develop the tool further. + + + + A few words about the current development status 0.2.0-pv2 + ----------------------------------------------------------- + Extensive testing has confirmed that magic-functions are now stable with libmagic of file-5.04. + Good support exists for: all text file types, a lot of image formats, Open Office documents, PDF, + TAR, CPIO, BZ2, ZIP, GZIP, 7Z. Some audio and video formats and a lot more is often restored correctly. + + Major problems still exist with some multimedia formats and some documents. + For example: MP3, OGG and MS Office files. The recovery of CD/DVD images and other file system containers + is also problematic. + + The Magic functions do not work particularly fast, but we find some files that other tools can not recover. + In real file systems are unfortunately often ext4magic also find many very old files. + The idea, to prevent this by using the metadata from the journal, is definitely good, but + in a real file system it works only limited. In test file systems it works very well, but in a real + file system journal we find not always enough of these metadata to prevent the recover of very old files. + + + robi@users.berlios.de !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- cgit v1.2.3