					README 
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				gET iT i sAY. giis 
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				   version.2.1
	
				
1)About giis
2)How to install
3)Limitaions and Future Versions
4)Documents
5)Copyright Issues
6)References and Thanks 
7)Feedback

About giis:
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gET iT i sAY.giis  is a text based file recovery tool.
giis is a little bit of work for open source from my part.

How to install:
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Copy giis folder into  /root
Then type, cd /root/giis
Type sh INSTALL	
That's it.

Here we have default support of about 8 levels of directory penetrations.
for ex,dir1/dir2/dir3/.../dir8.I hope most files will fall into this range.
If you want level 12, then just reset LEVEL_VALUE to 11.

LEVEL_VALUE is macro found at /giis/giis.h file.


Limitations and Future Versions:
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see giis/changelog for more information on versions.

Advantages of giis.v2.1 over giis.v2:
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*Autoupdates :
	-In giis.v2 only new files created in existing directories are updated.Thus
	 new directories are not updated.
	 With Version new directories are also updated.
	
*Elimination of repeations.

Advantages of giis.v2 over giis.v1:
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*files More than 8.04 MB can be recovered. 
*Here Specific user files and Specific file can also be recovered.
*LEVEL_VALUE limitation is eliminated. 
*Efficient storage mgmt.
*Duplication is avoided.
*Tested for bugs quite a long period.

Limitations:
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*Fails if the deleted file's content is overwritten by other files results 
in garbage.

*Would fail if Fragment blocks handled internally by gnu/linux is implemented.


Future versions:
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*)Being worked out right now,which hopes to provide solution to the problem of a deleted file is overwritten by other files.


Documents
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In /giis/doc part we have,

* Kick start-Basics of EXT3 File System Programming. 
* giis1 overview implementation.
* giis2 overview implementation. 

giis version is also provided with improved giis,
see /giis/giis1. 

Copyright Issues:
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gEt iT i sAY.giis is placed under GNU GPL.For more see /giis/COPYING.
You are most welcome to do anything with giis.

References and Thanks:
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For theory part i read,
Gadi Oxmen's EXT2ED - I thank him for an inventing doc part which helped a lot.

Books:
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Linux internals - Michel Beck and others.
Unix for programmers and users -Graham glass.
Advanced unix for programmers - Stevens Richard.
Linux internals - Daniel P.Bovet and Marco Cesati

For coding references i look into,
	/linux/src/ext3 -- Linux ext3 source codes 
	/EXT2ED		-- Gadi Oxmen's.<---Mainly this one.
	/e2fsck		-- Theodore Ts'o	
	
Feebdack:
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................I thnik yuo cna raed tihs .......
		Yuo aer fere to sned yuor comments adn criticimz to me.I'm hppay to 
receiev yuor mial.My olny ami is gvie a fere tolo fro flie recoveyr in oepn sourec.

 				
 				Thakn yuo.







