Recovery of deleted files/directories

[Eric Sandeen]

On 8/7/14, 8:41 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Brian Foster <bfoster at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> But di_mode in particular is a key element as I am using it to
>>> differentiate files from directories.
>> In general you can't rely on on-disk data once the inode has been freed.
>> Perhaps you should start a new thread with some kind of write up about
>> what you're trying to accomplish and how you're going about it.
> 
> Yes, I know it is unreliable, and that's OK for me. I'm satisfied in
> having a best effort solution which works often, it does not have to
> be fully reliable.
> 
> What I am trying to accomplish is quite simple: Recover as many
> deleted files in a XFS partition as possible. For example if someone
> deletes a file by mistake, how to get it back?

Do you have a link to the project you're working on?  Is it an open
source tool?

There's another tool out there already called "xfs_irecover" which
looks for any inode anywhere on disk, and tries to copy back out any
data that it points to, deleted or not.  It could use some love.

Thanks,
-Eric