From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>,
Jeffrey Sandel <webmaster@javainbaja.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Lost+found
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:51:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410105120.153ea739@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FCC071.40201@sandeen.net>
Le Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:11:13 -0500
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> écrivait:
> Crosses my mind that one could probably write a generic tool which
> could work with a package manager db to check file md5sums
> in /lost+found, if the files happen to be system files installed via
> a package....
Yup, I've done something similar when I used a PC with a bugged via
chipset which regularly broke apart filesystems under heavy load... I
used a tool named afick to index the whole disks (it stores md5 of
everything in a small db) and with some tinkering I was able to restore
everything from lost+found each time some filesystem went belly up
(once a month...)
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-08 5:20 Lost+found Jeffrey Sandel
2008-04-09 2:12 ` Lost+found Barry Naujok
2008-04-09 10:28 ` Lost+found Justin Piszcz
2008-04-09 13:11 ` Lost+found Eric Sandeen
2008-04-09 13:29 ` Lost+found Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-11 2:07 ` Lost+found Niv Sardi
2008-04-10 8:51 ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
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