ext2 file recovery

["Chris Brown" <cbrown@seitz.com>]

Hello all,

	I administer a few Debian machines around the office, and 
have a question about data recovery.  We have a machine with a 
108GB RAID5 array, and have run into some hardware trouble.

	During an e2fsck of the array, *two* drives failed, causing 
massive problems with the array.  I have figured out the low-level 
RAID problems, and the array is now mountable.  The e2fs on top 
of the RAID device, however, isn't doing so hot.

	Every inode seems to have lost it's filename, and been 
moved to lost+found.  This sucks the big one --- there was like 29G 
in about 5 million files on the array.  Obviously if the only solution 
is to rename each file with the proper name, the data is as good as 
dead.  

	I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas that might help me 
here.  Is the filename data still stuck in the filesystem somewhere? 
 If so, how can I re-link the names to the files?  I'm a relatively 
experienced GNU/Linux user and have done ext2 file recovery a few 
times before.  I'm not scared of low-level fs editing, so no holds 
barred on prospective solutions.  Thanks for any help!!

Chris Brown
cbrown@seitz.com



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