Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752728AbZAFPkr (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:40:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751009AbZAFPki (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:40:38 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:51783 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750950AbZAFPkh (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:40:37 -0500 To: Theodore Tso Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Rob Landley , Alan Cox , Pavel Machek , Sitsofe Wheeler , Duane Griffin , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Martin =?utf-8?Q?MOKREJ=C5=A0?= , kernel list , Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements From: Andi Kleen References: <200901042149.27655.rob@landley.net> <20090105111913.47a8d1a5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200901051300.09169.rob@landley.net> <20090106104146.GD6700@merlin.emma.line.org> <20090106153020.GB13086__11022.1833143898$1231255950$gmane$org@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:40:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20090106153020.GB13086__11022.1833143898$1231255950$gmane$org@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:30:20 -0500") Message-ID: <87k5984f4e.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1106 Lines: 29 Theodore Tso writes: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:41:46AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >> > 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. > > Well, Kurt Garloff wrote that program years and years ago. I'm sure > if someone created patches he'd probably accept them, though. It's > still the best program I've found for doing image backups in > catastrophic situations. Better would be just to incorporate the functionality as an option into standard GNU dd. Then everyone would easily have access to it. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- 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/