Bad block -> file mapping

[John-Mark Gurney]

Warner Losh wrote this message on Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:21 -0700:
> I have a hard disk that's been in service a long time.  I recently
> installed the SMART monitoring tools.  On occasion, I get reports of
> LBAs it can't read.  I'd like to map the LBA to an actual file in the
> file system, if possible.  Does anybody have any tools that can help
> me with this?
> 
> I know I need to get a new disk.  In the mean time, I need to cope
> with these errors in a sane manner...

ffsrecov will do this for UFS1...  I did make ffsrecov compile on 5.x,
but w/ the complications of making it support UFS2, I abandoned it..

With a bit of work, ffsrecov.py can be taught this and handle both ufs1
and ufs2...

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