Re: Reiserfs Data Recovery

[Nick Vahalik <nick@nsanity.com>]

Vladimir Saveliev wrote:

>>Are these features tested?  
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>Most of these things were added quickly to solve certain user problems.
>To use them one is to understand what they were created for.
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And I guess that isn't documented....

>>Is there any more documentation on them 
>>besides just what's in the comments?
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>no.
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>>  Are there any good sites to read 
>>up some more on reiserfs v3.6 internals? 
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>namesys.com had description of reiserfs internals. But now it does not.
>read source code instead
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Is there a reason?  I grabbed a copy of the whitepaper from archive.org 
and started reading it last night.  Is that information out of date... 
or is it taken down pending the release of Reiserv4?

>> I've become determined to get 
>>this data back.  I've got a couple ideas that I'd like to try but look 
>>at some of these commands I see that some of the things I'd like to 
>>access may already be written.
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>>If the problem is that there are sections of my tree missing, why can't 
>>we just chop the bad sections off and salvage the data that is still 
>>there?  Are there any tools that do this?
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>did you try reiserfsck?
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Yes... with --rebuild-tree, and it aborts after Pass0 every time.  It 
fixes... maybe 10 leaves... and then it finds a bad pointer (or 
something) and dies every time it runs.

Nick Vahalik