On Tuesday 06 January 2009 09:57:29 Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:40:33PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > 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. > > I'm not sure whether the GNU coreutils maintainer would be willing to > accept a series of Linux-specific interfaces, but dd_rescue also has > the advantage that it uses a large blocksize for speed, but when an > error is returned, it backs off to a small block size to recovery the > maximum amount of data, and then later returns to the large block > size. (Ideally, it should be able to query the disk drive to > determine its internal block size, and use that for the smaller block > size, but I'm not sure if there's a standardized way that value is > exposed by HDD's or SDD's.) I don't suppose there a Documentation file to put data recovery information in? (Maybe the new filesystems expectations file, which doesn't seem the best name for it...?) Rob -- 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
