Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:20:17 -0800 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: UFS2 version of ffsrecov. Message-ID: <1170530417.20968.14.camel@jill.exit.com>
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No, I'm not looking for one, I'm releasing one. This is a heavily modified version of John-Mark Gurney's ffsrecov, adapted to use libufs and to work (only) with UFS2 file systems. I call it ffs2recov and it is available at http://www.exit.com/Archives/FreeBSD/ffs2recov.tar.bz2 I wrote this a couple of years ago so that I could recover a file system that had been stomped by a misconfigured RAID controller. It worked well enough for me to recover a couple of hundred gigabytes worth of data, which was a great relief (although some stuff was gone forever, sigh). I had intended to polish it up and release it long before now, but I've never managed to get around to doing the polishing. In particular, while it has a nice little summary of implemented options, the manpage needs a lot of work. On the positive side, however, I extended it to be a lot more robust in the face of corrupt pointers and file system offsets, so it doesn't just fall over when it sees garbage in a block address or whatnot. I'm releasing it under the BSD two-clause license, with due credit to John-Mark. It's my hope that someone else will take it, clean it up a bit, rewrite the manpage and maybe make a port out of it. If you do and you need a place to host the distfile, let me know. In any event, it's a tool that people often need. Enjoy. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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