Re: [Bug-ddrescue] New features patch now available

[Franc Zabkar]

A reverse pass effectively disables the drive's read-ahead caching. Data 
recovery professionals will tell you that this can be (or is?) a good thing.

-Franc


At 04:52 AM 6/07/14, you wrote:

> I have released a features patch for ddrescue that I have been working on. 
> It is available on my ddrutility page on sourceforge. Its purpose is to 
> add a few new options for more control over certain things.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddrutility/files/ddrescue%20patches/
>
> New options are:
> --no-reverse-pass          do not switch direction for each pass (for 
> those that want it, as it really does not help any and is mostly useless 
> in my opinion)