Fwd: Need assistance on XFS undeleting files

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Tue Jul 6 07:17:28 CDT 2010


James Shih <shija03 at 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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