----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ole Tange" <ta...@gnu.org>
> This summer I had to rescue files from a broken disk. I did not have a > same or bigger sized disk with me. > > It would have been really handy if I could have copied the bad sectors > onto a sparse file, then overlayed the device with the sparse file, > mounted it, and copied the files off the disk: [ ... ] > I would imagine all you have to do is ignore the blocks that succeeds > reading in the first try, and do as normal for all the rest. In fact, no -- while I am not The Man, it seems to me that at that point, you have to worry about the *internals* of the filesystem, since the block offsets are going to change, and the inodes must then also change. It would seem to boost the complexity a *lot*, from my viewpoint. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list Bug-ddrescue@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
