Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi (and happy new year). I've had this idea ever since someone asked about this situation on this forum a few months ago: Considering that you have a long running process writing stuff into a large file, and you accidentally delete that file. You can still access the file's content through

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread Alon Altman
Can it link back a loopmounted filesystem? On 9/13/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi (and happy new year). I've had this idea ever since someone asked about this situation on this forum a few months ago: Considering that you have a long running process writing stuff into a large

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/09/2007, Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can it link back a loopmounted filesystem? I started testing then realized why you ask :), I now have a mounted image which I can't get rid off, ah well. a) If you can find a way to get a file descriptor to the mounted image then it'll work

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
Here is similar solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfs-undelete/ -- Constantine = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread guy keren
Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Here is similar solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfs-undelete/ this looks like a dead link there's nothing to download yet, and when browsing via CVS, i only see empty directories, no files. am i missing something? it looks as if there were files

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/09/2007, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Here is similar solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfs-undelete/ Yes indeed, it looks like its purpose is identical to fdlink's, though they have much more code around the plain ioctl I provide, maybe

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
I'll talk with author of the utility On 9/14/07, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: On 13/09/2007, *guy keren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Here is similar solution:

Re: Link back open deleted files - a working solution

2007-09-13 Thread guy keren
Amos Shapira wrote: On 13/09/2007, *guy keren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Here is similar solution: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfs-undelete/ Yes indeed, it looks like its purpose is identical to fdlink's, though