Hello Antonio!
I know I am quite late to the party, as there already is a release candidate with
"blockfile", but would still like to give my input.
My proposition is "mapfile" to replace "logfile"
Alternatively "blockmap"
You responded to this before:
Robert Trevellyan wrote:
mapfile
rescuemap
Antonio Diaz Diaz answered:
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.
But that is exactly the reason why I would not use "blockfile". Everything in ddrescue is about blocks. It
reads from block-devices in portions of soft-blocks and hard-blocks, it uses blocks as unit, and so on. Just about
every input or output file in ddrescue could be coined as a "blockfile". No wonder "block" appears
all over the documentation. If you are looking to replace the word "log", the better choice is a new word,
one not already present in so many other contexts.
What is the logfile? It is a map of blocks. (You even phrased it yourself that way in the --test-mode description.) It is not a list of blocks,
because it does not list single blocks or some blocks. A "loose" logfile might be considered a list of block-ranges, but a well defined
logfile "lists" all blocks and defines a status (think "color") for them, thereby painting a map of blocks. The defining part
here is "map", while "blocks" is redundant in the world of ddrescue - what else? Therefore I'd slightly prefer
"mapfile" to "blockmap".