To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>,
       Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
       Martin =?utf-8?Q?MOKREJ=C5=A0?= <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>,
       kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
       rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Organization: Oracle
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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:27:33 -0500
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>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:

Rob> On Monday 05 January 2009 05:19:13 Alan Cox wrote:
>> You could of course just learn to use the functions the kernel
>> provides.  If you want to recover disk blocks without retrying you
>> can do that via SG_IO. If you want to adjust the timeout and retry
>> levels you can do that too via sysfs.

Rob> Good to know, but "my laptop hard drive just died" is not the
Rob> optimal time to learn these sorts of things.

http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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