'od' cant dump directory contants

[Ariful Hossain]

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 05:39 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Ariful Hossain
> <freefall1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         od -cb .
>         
>         it should dump the directory....after searching the net i
>         found out that
>         the gnu od is implemented differently for POSIX compability.
>         so its not
>         the same as original unix od.
>         
>         
>         On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 13:45 +0200, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
>         > Op 18-07-10 11:35, Ariful Hossain schreef:
>         > > od supposed to dump directory contents as well as files.
>         but in my
>         > > ubuntu box it cant do that.  It gives only a read error
>         msg.  Is it a
>         > > problem with gnu od or od is implemented differently from
>         original unix
>         > > od?
>         >
>         > What is the exact command that you used? Including all
>         parameters?
>         >
>         
>         
>  
> Besides all that, some filesystems don't lend themselves to od-style
> dumping:
> in particular, those with B-tree implementations (reiser?, ext4?). 
> 
> 
> What is the filesystem whose directory you wish to dump?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
> 

ext4 and i think thats the end of it. Its sad ......:(