On Aug 03, 2009 17:16 +0530, ranjith kannikara wrote: > We are doing a project to make an applicatio that can recover the > deleted data from an ext3 filesystem > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/recoverext3/>. We ahve used the tools > foremost and debugfs to debug the filesystem and read the journal. > Is there any way to read the journal? > Or How can we read the journal of a filesystem. > The inode number of the journal is present in the ext3_super_block > structure. But We are able to open the inode only with the help of > these tools. > Can someone guide us to where tio find the details of how a journal > can be read. Why create a new tool? There is ext3grep which already does a lot of this work, and it would be much better to spend your time to improve that tool instead of spending time developing a new tool that doesn't do anything better than any existing one. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
