On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Marcel Partap <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the BTRFS development list, right? Someone here should know how > to achieve this I hope? > #Regards > >> On 01/03/14 02:21, Marcel Partap wrote: >>> Dear BTFRS devs, >>> I have a 1TB btrfs volume mounted read-only since two years because I >>> deleted a bunch of files and didn't want to give up on them. >>> Now with latest btrfs-find-root and btrfs restore --dry-run -t in a >>> loop, I generated the full list of files contained in the last several >>> hundred root trees. However, diffing these, I find the current one being >>> the same until 94 root trees back, and the ones before contain earlier >>> changes. Maybe by my own fault that is..whatever. >>> >>> Is there a way to just view the transaction history in a human-readable way? >>> >>> #Regards >>>
I am not a "dev", but since BTRFS utilizes a COW (Copy On Write) architecture, it doesn't keep a journal or history of transactions that can be unwound. With respect to un-deleting files on BTRFS, the btrfs-find-root/'btrfs restore' combination are the most effective user-space tools I know of. It sounds like you've effectively tried this manually, but here's a link to an btrfs undelete script that also makes use of btrfs-find-root and 'btrfs restore': http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/22560 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
