Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751979AbZAFKmK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:42:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750899AbZAFKlz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:41:55 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39550 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750738AbZAFKly (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:41:54 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18XSWJiDzAXfWpqKbhvsgIsLX4GT+RF76OoUCsvZA xKVclBHwfkzDyl Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:41:46 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Rob Landley , Alan Cox , Theodore Tso , Pavel Machek , Sitsofe Wheeler , Duane Griffin , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Martin =?iso-8859-15?Q?MOKREJ=A6?= , kernel list , Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements Message-ID: <20090106104146.GD6700@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Martin K. Petersen" , Rob Landley , Alan Cox , Theodore Tso , Pavel Machek , Sitsofe Wheeler , Duane Griffin , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Martin =?iso-8859-15?Q?MOKREJ=A6?= , kernel list , Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org References: <200901042149.27655.rob@landley.net> <20090105111913.47a8d1a5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200901051300.09169.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.64 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 26 On Mon, 05 Jan 2009, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley 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/ While nice, it does not reconfigure the block layer to reduce retries; at least not in a manner I see at a glance; no sysctl or SG_IO or ioctl or fcntl anywhere. -- Matthias Andree -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/