Re: document ext3 requirements

Matthias Andree
2009-01-06T10:42:10Z

On Mon, 05 Jan 2009, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

> >>>>> "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/

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.

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Matthias Andree