XFS_DB

Stefan Ring stefanrin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 05:27:38 CST 2013


> Instead of accessing the device itself can we read the metadump file to get
> the required information of file mapping with file system block number. Its
> binary file but is there any utility which reads the metadump file itself
> instead of file system image. As it is easier to read the metadump file
> instead of go towards  disk access itself. There is file obfuscation in the
> file name for 4 characters

IIRC, a metadump can be "restored" into a sparse file that does not
require much more space than the metadump itself.

> On finding out solution over the OOM I found reference of xfs_db 64  but
> there is no 64 bit version of utility available in xfs website either there
> will be some configuration option or it becomes obsolete.

Are you using Linux? On every 64 bit Linux the XFS binaries are built in 64 bit.



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