From: Marcel Partap <mpartap@gmx.net>
To: Mitch Harder <mitch.harder@sabayonlinux.org>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to view transaction log chronologically, human-readable?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:34:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5357EBA2.7030605@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKcLGm9Ng4J2rGsC_JUpG+A6Q5bR81kSD8zBAONjkrqsLuUyWQ@mail.gmail.com>
> I am not a "dev", but since BTRFS utilizes a COW (Copy On Write)
> architecture, it doesn't keep a journal or history of transactions
> that can be unwound.
Ok, thanks for making that clear, I wasn't aware of that.
But shouldn't the chain of recent root trees kinda allow similar
functionality?
> It sounds like you've effectively tried this manually, but here's a
> link to an btrfs undelete script that also makes use of
> btrfs-find-root and 'btrfs restore':
Actually I was using that script as a starting point.. Unfortunately,
the files I was looking for were nowhere to be found..
>From a journal-type functionality I was hoping for a way to actually see
the most recent file system actions..
Is there no hope to recreate that information from the roots
btrfs-find-root comes up with?
#Regards
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-01 1:21 How to view transaction log chronologically, human-readable? Marcel Partap
2014-03-14 11:10 ` Marcel Partap
2014-04-19 19:45 ` Marcel Partap
2014-04-21 4:12 ` Mitch Harder
2014-04-23 16:34 ` Marcel Partap [this message]
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