Re: How to view transaction log chronologically, human-readable?

2014-04-23 Thread Marcel Partap
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. Ok, thanks for making that clear, I wasn't aware of that. But shouldn't the chain of recent root trees kinda allow similar functionality? It

Re: How to view transaction log chronologically, human-readable?

2014-04-20 Thread Marcel Partap
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.

Re: How to view transaction log chronologically, human-readable?

2014-04-20 Thread Mitch Harder
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Marcel Partap mpar...@gmx.net 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

Re: How to view transaction log chronologically, human-readable?

2014-03-14 Thread Marcel Partap
[...] Theoretically, there should be someone on this mailing list capable of answering this question, no? Please feel invited to share your insights ;) #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

How to view transaction log chronologically, human-readable?

2014-02-28 Thread Marcel Partap
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