Recovery of Deleted Data and Associated Metadata  from XFS and BTRFS Filesystems

Author(s)	Mr. Arnav Nilesh Bhandarkar, Mr. Anmol Mishra, Ms. Smita Gumaste, Mr. Dhruv Parmar
Country	India
Abstract	Metadata-aware and filesystem-specific recovery techniques have gradually replaced low-level disc scanning and signature-based carving in forensic file recovery research. The internal structures, allocation mechanisms, and versioning behaviours of XFS and Btrfs have been thoroughly studied; however, the forensic applicability of current recovery techniques is still restricted because of the lack of a systematic confidence evaluation, incomplete metadata reconstruction, and insufficient handling of fragmentation, copy-on-write extents, and snapshot-based inconsistencies. Although hybrid methods that combine content validation and metadata parsing have increased recovery accuracy, they frequently lack quantitative indicators of evidential reliability and contextual integrity. By combining several recovery methods, recent multi-strategy frameworks show increased efficacy, but they are still unable to provide transparent, scalable, and forensically admissible solutions for contemporary Linux file systems.
Field	Computer > Network / Security
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On	2026-05-05

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