Re: [9fans] Corrupted file entry on QEMU - how to recover?

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

OK, I'm going to hold this off for the new year. Until then, I  
managed to free up a lot of space (and am continuing to do so), so  
this time I'll put up a new 4GB QEMU fossil+venti Plan 9 and save the  
old disk until I can fix it.

On Dec 27, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> Can someone PLEASE give me some information so I can get my files
>> back? Otherwise, there goes my 3D library, my hoc implementation,  
>> etc.
>
> I'm afraid you're probably out of luck, without a lot of work.
>
> The disk data structures are all described in /sys/doc/fossil.ps.
>
> If you were using snapshots, then you might be able to
> use the information in /sys/doc/fossil.ps to write a program
> to find all the fossil snapshot roots, and then you
> could rewrite the super block to point at an older,
> hopefully not corrupt, root.
>
> However, it looks like in plain fossil mode (not fossil+venti),
> the installer does not configure any snapshots, so you'd
> have had to turn them on yourself.
>
> Without snapshots, you'd have to poke around on the
> disk looking for a VtSource that looked like the root
> directory and then fix up the root block to be valid and
> point at it.
>
> If you're not used to poking at file system data structures,
> this might well be more work than just recreating your
> hoc and 3D code.
>
> Russ
>