Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Feature request (if it's allowed here :) )

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Oleg, of course feature requests are allowed here. :-)

Oleg Krutov wrote:
> 1) I noticed that when copying clusters that are non-4KB-aligned (eg,
> because of bad blocks), copying speed considerably slows down and manually
> aligning copying area one can achieve a full speed

Maybe you are trying to read 512-byte sectors from a disc with 4096-byte 
sectors. In this case --block-size=4096 should give you full speed.


> 2) Although I don't think that feature will be in great demand, maybe there
> are folks like me :) that use ddrescue for different tricky things (eg,
> external generation of log files for copying by one physical head at a time
> etc.) Making these things, there is a need to introduce one more state for
> disk area, say, "ignored" - it means, that no actions need to be performed
> with this area at all, just skip it during copying and leave intact this
> record in logfile.

Please, read this thread[1] and comment back any improvement you have to 
the solution proposed there. We have yet to determine what is the best 
way (if any) to set the minimum size of a regular output file when using 
the option --domain-logfile.

[1]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue/2011-05/msg00010.html


Best regards,
Antonio.