Re: undelete still opened file

["Lars Täuber" <taeuber@bbaw.de>]

Hi Theodore,


Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> schrieb:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:33:11PM +0200, Lars Täuber wrote:
> > Is the space of the file on the underlying block device already
> > marked as free? Or does this happen after all processes have closed
> > all file descriptors pointing to the file?
> 
> No, the space on the file is not yet marked as free.  *However* for
> ext3 and ext4, the inode has been placed on the orphaned inode list,
> so that if the system crashes, part of the journal recovery process
> will at that point free the blocks.

not that it is a way I would go, but theoretically: I could provoke a crash and mount the ext3 filesystem as ext2 and restore the file?

> > I really want to undo the deletion. (get a link/name connected to
> > the root inode of the file again) Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Not currently using ext3/ext4, no.  There would have to be an entirely
> new system call or other userspace interface for something like this.

Is this planned?

But a solution should be independent of the real filesystem. Because the file is still somewhere in the ram and represented in linux vfs, isn't it?
It only needs to be copied/recreated on to a (different) filesystem somehow.

Regards
Lars
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