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On 09/25/2015 06:26 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Tierney
> <cybergibbons@cybergibbons.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am a reverse engineer, and I am finding that UBIFS is becoming
>> increasingly common on embedded devices. A common task is recovering
>> file systems from locked down or damaged devices, and I'm finding this
>> very challenging with UBIFS!
>>
>> I have seen talk on here of userspace tools to recover damaged UBIFS
>> systems. Did anything every come of this? I am currently using "ubi
>> reader" ( https://github.com/jrspruitt/ubi_reader ) with some success.
>
> We're currently working on such tools.
> Stay tuned.

Yes, there is already a RFC for ubifs_dump tool,
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-August/061201.html

fsck.ubifs is in developing. Andrew, do you want something like that?

Yang
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