Re: undelete - xfsrecover'ing deleted files in xfs

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:02:58PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> > When you can find the inode of the deleted file again and its extent btrees 
> > are not destroyed it should be possible to reconnect it to a directory.
> 
> Unfortunately when we free an inode we also remove all the extents from
> it. So even if those extents used to be in the inode, they are not there
> now. The reason this happens is that deleting a file is an unbounded

I see. The extents would be in a btree which would be likely rebalanced
on the extent freeing and that would destroy them because they're inline
in the btree. Is that correct? 

Thanks,
-Andi