Re: Image recovery: Recovering fragmented image files from flash

Phil Carmody wrote:

> I can think of few techniques _more_ likely to cause fragmentation!
> (Assuming that's what you meant by "segmentation".)

Right, I meant fragmentation.

> Every temporary 
> file (just think of your browser cache etc.) will create a hole, for
> example. Every hole is a place where the end of one file and the 
> start of another, or even worse the middle of a file, will later be 
> placed.

I suppose that image files are written sequentially, one after another. 
If not, the problem is very hard (NP?).

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