refsprogs

The purpose of this project is to provide utilities for accessing data on ReFS volumes. As ReFS lacks documentation the utilites are dependent on independent exploration of the on-disk format, and thus cannot yet be fully relied upon.

Currently the following utilities exist:

redb

A utility that prints the ReFS tree data, as much as we currently understand it.

refscat

A utility that prints the data of a file, extended attribute (EA) or an alternate data stream on an ReFS volume.

refsimage

A utility that creates images of ReFS filesystems for analyzing filesystem metadata and eventually dumping / restoring filesystems (not yet tested for this use case).

refsinfo

A utility that prints information about a specific file or directory or about the whole volume. The '-v' option provides more verbose output.

refslabel

A utility that prints the label of an ReFS volume.

refsls

A utility that lists files on an ReFS volume. The '-R' switch allows recursive listing, while '-a' shows hidden files and '-l' uses a long format including timestamps. If the '-e' option is supplied, extended attributes (EAs) are listed and the '-s' option lists alternate data streams.

refs-fuse

A FUSE driver interface to librefs allowing direct access to ReFS volumes by mounting them in the filesystem.