Patches for GPT and geli recovery
- Reply: Lee Brown : "Re: Patches for GPT and geli recovery"
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:50:11 UTC
Recently one of my disks "experienced a data corruption event of unknown origin". Additional details are available at: <https://www.fabiankeil.de/gehacktes/gpt-and-geli-recovery/> TLDR: I created two patches to recover nearly all the data. The first patch implements a "search" subcommand for geli to look for valid meta data (but unfortunately the meta data on my disk was corrupted or gone): <https://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/electrobsd/ElectroBSD-12-20211218-55bc8edfe8d2-geli-search.diff> The second patch lets the kernel ignore more issues if kern.geom.part.check_integrity is set to 0: <https://www.fabiankeil.de/sourcecode/electrobsd/ElectroBSD-12-52515feff497-2021.12.17-sys-geom-part-Ignore-more-errors.diff> I'm wondering if those patches should be upstreamed. The first patch is probably safe but for the second one I only tested the code paths that were relevant for my issue. BTW, I would also be interested to know if others have experienced similar data corruption and could figure out how it happened. Fabian