Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Suggestions to rename "logfile"

[Robert Trevellyan]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think the best suggestion is 'blockfile', proposed by Martin Bittermann.
> All the others either don't make sense for some use of the file, or are too
> long.
>
> After all, the logfile is mostly described in the manual as a "list of
> data blocks".
>
> Robert Trevellyan wrote:
> > mapfile
> > rescuemap
>
> The problem with these is that 'map' is only mentioned in the ddrescue
> documentation in relation with the '--test-mode', while 'block' is
> mentioned in about all places related to the logfile.
>

Seems entirely reasonable to me.

Once again, let me thank you for ddrescue. Twice I have used it to recover
data for clients who were told it was gone forever. One lady thought she
had lost all her photos of her son growing up, and now she thinks I'm a
genius.
:o)