Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Feature request: copy bad sectors to sparse file

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ole Tange" <address@hidden>

> This summer I had to rescue files from a broken disk. I did not have a
> same or bigger sized disk with me.
> 
> It would have been really handy if I could have copied the bad sectors
> onto a sparse file, then overlayed the device with the sparse file,
> mounted it, and copied the files off the disk:

[ ... ]

> I would imagine all you have to do is ignore the blocks that succeeds
> reading in the first try, and do as normal for all the rest.

In fact, no -- while I am not The Man, it seems to me that at that point,
you have to worry about the *internals* of the filesystem, since the block
offsets are going to change, and the inodes must then also change.

It would seem to boost the complexity a *lot*, from my viewpoint.

Cheers,
-- jra
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