UBIFS recovery/forensics tools

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 27.09.2015 um 10:37 schrieb Andrew Tierney:
> I suspect a fsck utility will work quite well for a number of these.
> 
> I guess the real issue is that as soon as any piece of data deviates
> from the norm, current tools fall over rather than attempting to
> recover. ubi_reader has verbose output that allows some degree of
> tweaking, but it can still be awkward.
> 
> The current issue I am working on is that I have one image with two
> volumes contained within. The first volume can be recovered fine, but
> the second starts walking the index, reads a common header, an ino,
> and then stops. I can observe significant data in the remainder of the
> file. There is no other location on the system for a root directory,
> so I suspect that the index is being misread. I don't yet know enough
> about UBIFS to describe the issue better.

Can you share the image?

I hope I have something sane to release soon.
...being still busy with rebasing my preliminary tool to Yang's tree
and found some issues.

Thanks,
//richard