Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Patch to support -d on Darwin and Mac OS X

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Rob Terrell wrote:
> I made a modification to main.cc so to support ddrescue's direct mode  
> ("-d") when running on Mac OS X or Darwin systems. It seems to work-- in 
> my test case, without -d a volume copy (with around 300 errors)  took 
> more than twice as long.

Thanks for the patch. It may be useful for Darwin users. As it is I find 
it too intrusive to include it in ddrescue, but perhaps someone could 
find a more portable way of getting direct disk access.


Regards,
Antonio.