Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:57:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: James Buszard-Welcher <james@reef.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering Lost Inode? Message-ID: <19971028095703.58858@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3454F51C.C37E37EB@reef.com>; from James Buszard-Welcher on Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 02:10:04PM -0600 References: <3454F51C.C37E37EB@reef.com>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 02:10:04PM -0600, James Buszard-Welcher wrote: > Sorry, not a FreeBSD *specific* question, but it could be... > I'm not sure what would be the appropriate group. I'm sure that > if someone know this, it is someone on this list. > > I had a daemon writing to a file... I then rm-ed the file, but the > daemon still had the filehandle and was writing to it. > > Well... I killed the daemon, which had been writing to this invisible > inode. > > Is there ANY way (fsdb, fsck, some great perl hack) to find out what > this inode was and link it back into some directory so I can get at > the file contents? Not after you stopped the daemon. Then the link count goes to 0 and the file is removed. Greg
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