Re: Fwd: Need assistance on XFS undeleting files

Andi Kleen
2010-07-06T12:14:45Z

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