Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:41:46AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >> > Rob> Good to know, but "my laptop hard drive just died" is not the >> > Rob> optimal time to learn these sorts of things. >> > >> > http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ >> >> While nice, it does not reconfigure the block layer to reduce retries; >> at least not in a manner I see at a glance; no sysctl or SG_IO or ioctl >> or fcntl anywhere. > > Well, Kurt Garloff wrote that program years and years ago. I'm sure > if someone created patches he'd probably accept them, though. It's > still the best program I've found for doing image backups in > catastrophic situations. Better would be just to incorporate the functionality as an option into standard GNU dd. Then everyone would easily have access to it. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
