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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Morrison" <address@hidden>

>>\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.
> 
> I agree. I would add further that if you have a failing mechanism,
> the last thing you want to be doing is reading the whole disk, saving
> some parts, then presumably later reading the disk again to get the
> good blocks. You could have extra bad blocks by then which would
> leave you no better off.

Wait: he meant "read the bad blocks into a file, and then *overlay them on
the mounted dying drive*"??

Oh ghod no; that's a non-starter.

Cheers,
-- jra
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