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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/
Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/
http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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