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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:22:37 +0100 (MET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        james@reef.com (James Buszard-Welcher)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recovering Lost Inode?
Message-ID:  <199710272122.WAA02921@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3454F51C.C37E37EB@reef.com> from "James Buszard-Welcher" at Oct 27, 97 02:10:04 pm

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As 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?

wild guess: fsck ?
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