> The rest was obvious - start from relevant block in inode table and walk through the references... Once we got that, it was an easy ride It reminds me about

> The rest was obvious - start from relevant block in inode table and walk through the references... Once we got that, it was an easy ride It reminds me about when I sometimes have do ext4 surgery with debugfs. I always keep a static busybox running, so I can either piggyback to it (or its proc entry in the worst case - but as much fun as it may be, I don't like too much fun!) > Amazing how little you actually need to bring the system back to life... Indeed. Interestingly, this art seems to be lost to people who will talk about "cattle not pet" and how layer upon layer of abstraction protects them from anything - until it doesn't.