From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: ranjith kannikara <ranjithkannikara@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help to read journal content
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:54:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090803195444.GH5432@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20aa8c370908030446n59325e14j41e4cc72d86a9bae@mail.gmail.com>
On Aug 03, 2009 17:16 +0530, ranjith kannikara wrote:
> We are doing a project to make an applicatio that can recover the
> deleted data from an ext3 filesystem
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/recoverext3/>. We ahve used the tools
> foremost and debugfs to debug the filesystem and read the journal.
> Is there any way to read the journal?
> Or How can we read the journal of a filesystem.
> The inode number of the journal is present in the ext3_super_block
> structure. But We are able to open the inode only with the help of
> these tools.
> Can someone guide us to where tio find the details of how a journal
> can be read.
Why create a new tool? There is ext3grep which already does a lot of
this work, and it would be much better to spend your time to improve
that tool instead of spending time developing a new tool that doesn't
do anything better than any existing one.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
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2009-08-03 11:46 ` Help to read journal content ranjith kannikara
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