Re: document ext3 requirements

Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05T19:29:04Z

>>>>> "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/

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering