From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
"Rob Landley" <rob@landley.net>,
"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Pavel Machek" <pavel@suse.cz>,
"Sitsofe Wheeler" <sitsofe@yahoo.com>,
"Duane Griffin" <duaneg@dghda.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
"Martin MOKREJŠ" <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
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:30:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106153020.GB13086@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090106104146.GD6700@merlin.emma.line.org>
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.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 15:30 UTC|newest]
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2009-01-04 19:08 ` document ext3 requirements Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-04 19:31 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:40 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:30 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-05 3:49 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 4:31 ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-05 5:00 ` david
2009-01-05 11:19 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 19:00 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 19:27 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-06 10:41 ` Matthias Andree
2009-01-06 15:30 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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2009-01-06 15:40 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-06 15:57 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-06 17:31 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-06 19:31 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-27 13:24 ` Thierry Vignaud
2009-01-27 13:37 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-06 10:36 ` Matthias Andree
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2009-01-04 23:13 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-05 2:51 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 3:33 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05 4:02 ` david
2009-01-05 3:52 ` Rob Landley
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2009-01-05 20:36 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-05 23:09 ` Theodore Tso
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2009-01-05 22:25 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-06 4:08 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-03 12:38 Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 21:17 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 22:06 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 22:17 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-03 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 23:01 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 23:38 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-03 23:50 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 23:58 ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-04 0:08 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-04 21:49 ` Ingo Oeser
2009-01-04 0:00 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 0:11 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-04 0:41 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 3:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-04 14:24 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 18:40 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 19:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-01-04 19:36 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 19:51 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 21:55 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:06 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 22:42 ` Bron Gondwana
2009-01-05 3:22 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 0:19 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 2:55 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 19:56 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 19:16 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-06 19:20 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-06 10:08 ` Matthias Andree
2009-01-06 15:23 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-03 23:12 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-06 10:06 ` Matthias Andree
2009-01-04 2:32 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:33 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 13:35 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2009-01-04 13:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-04 18:21 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-01-04 18:38 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:37 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:58 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-05 11:43 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-07 11:59 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 20:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 19:49 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 22:06 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:25 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:07 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 1:38 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 22:55 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 0:16 ` david
2009-01-05 9:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 1:50 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 3:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05 9:45 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 11:28 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 19:15 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05 20:19 ` Theodore Tso
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