Recently I've had to do some low-level surgery on some disks that have gone bad in order to recover some of the data. This has required me to zero out blocks on disk, patch up the affected files, and pull the data off the disks.

I was toying around the with fsdb tool, but couldn't figure out a way to map blocks to inodes (although the 'blocks' command does the mapping in the other direction quite nicely.)

Poking around I found that someone has added this functionality (via a "findblk" command) to NetBSD's fsdb (back in 2003!), which I have grafted onto a 4.x box here with relative ease.

NetBSD Mailing List Posting: http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.netbsd.tech.userlevel/browse_thread/thread/18acceb04cf5aadb/2a891d67edf9279%232a891d67edf9279?sa=X&oi=groupsr&start=0&num=3) NetBSD CVS: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25&f=h

Is this something that folks would like to see on FreeBSD? I've got RELENG_5_4 and RELENG_6_0 boxes here in my office so I can whip up the patches and do some testing in short order.