From: "Maar, Roberto" Subject: Re: [SOLVED] (was "Re: Restoring filenames from partly damaged ext4-filesystem") Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:00:21 +0100 Message-ID: <6D9A985A8374004AA880FD5D70B2D3C449AE04494A@ABGEX73E.FSC.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from dgate20.ts.fujitsu.com ([80.70.172.51]:41081 "EHLO dgate20.ts.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751696Ab2BMKKD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:10:03 -0500 Content-Language: de-DE Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi list ! I am the developer of ext4magic On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:47:14AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> Looks interesting and useful... I wonder if it makes sense to include >> this into e2fsprogs at some point, so that it is available when users >> need it most... Ted Ts'o wrote: > We'll need to talk to the author about that. At the very least it > would be good to translate the ext4magic wiki into English, so that > people who are doing web searches are more likely to find it. :-) I think inside of e2fsprogs is not the place for ext4magic. A good optional extension, probably, but a standard tool, never. There are destroyed, deleted or lost structures and there is a lot of heuristic function. Installation on a production server is a no go for any administrator. Useable for some small forensic problems and a last chance to recover some lost files. Nobody needs this regularly. Everyone has a good backup, and no one destroy its files and file systems. It is very rarely needed. The users prefer extundelete. This is buggy, the development sleeps for 2 years, on the mailing list no answers, but it is easy to use and there are many HOWTOs, and all love it ;-) One of the problems of ext4magic, of course, no English documentation. But at the moment is the one man show, and my English is a disaster. The world would laugh at it. I need some help for translation. Proofread, for a native speaker with technical understanding a few minutes work, for me ... We'll see, I try Regards, Roberto Maar