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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: James Shih <shija03@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Need assistance on XFS undeleting files
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:17:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwzwx0rr.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikhinYuUDsT-5hqyNkR89Y4PeosvAQ3K2LFqYkn@mail.gmail.com> (James Shih's message of "Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:16:20 -0400")

James Shih <shija03@gmail.com> writes:
>
>    I would like to know if the development team carries such tools -
> tools that allow one to list the inodes of the XFS filesystem of
> deleted files, and tools that allow one to cat (dump) the blocks from
> a starting inode to all the following blocks until an indication that
> the file is ended or a new indication of a new file appears. (these
> tools would correspond to TCT's ils and pcat respectively).

XFS has no separate reserved inode table (but just allocates/free blocks
in the fs), so it can be difficult to even find the inodes when they're
gone.

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-06 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2010-07-06 11:16   ` Fwd: Need assistance on XFS undeleting files James Shih
2010-07-06 12:17     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-07-06 19:44       ` Eric Sandeen

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