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New catastrophic HAMMER filesystem recovery tool in HEAD
I've made a good first attempt at writing a HAMMER filesystem
recovery directive to the hammer utility. It is now in HEAD.
It works on the filesystem image (similar to the 'show' directive):
hammer -f <device> recover <empty_target_dir>
This is not a fsck. The filesystem image is only scanned, not modified.
The reconstructed filesystem is stored in the target directory.
Currently the directive has some limitations. It does require the
volume header to be intact, it doesn't deal with hardlinks (only
one namespace will be restored), and it does not try to recover
the uid, gid, modes, or times. Only files and directories are
recovered. Softlinks are ignored at the moment. Data CRCs are not
validated at the moment. Most of these limitations can be overcome
with more work.
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The actual operation of the recover directive is very cool. Apart
from the needing the volume header it just scans the image straight
out looking for blocks that contain B-Tree nodes. It then scans
those nodes looking for inode, directory-entry, and file-data
records and creates them on the fly (piecemeal) in the <target_dir>.
Files and directories are initially named after their object id
but as the operation continues and more fragmentory information
is recovered the program can reconstruct the actual file and
directory names and the actual directory hierarchy, which it
does by renaming the temporarily named and placed files and
directories as appropriate, on the fly.
HAMMER might never have an fsck command but we do now have a 'recover'
feature and I expect it will get better and better as time passes.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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