Paul L Daniels wrote:
Many thanks for bringing this out :) I've got quite a few drives here
that I'll be testing it out on, including some with 'marginal
prefailure' symptoms, so it will be a good test.
You are welcome. :-) I'm looking forward to knowing the results of your
tests.
One thing I was going to add in to the code (or you can do it :) ) is
to have a read-only option, since normally I do things like this;
ddrescue -v -f /dev/sda /dev/null client-drive.log
With the read-only option it wouldn't bother writing data to /dev/null.
This is easily doable. It is just like the "--test" option of lzip and
similar compressors, which "performs a trial decompression and throws
away the result". The most difficult part is finding a suitable name for
the command line option, I guess.
But, is it really needed? Writing data to /dev/null makes ddrescue
slower or something? More options make it easier for the user to make a
mistake, as already happened with the "--generate-logfile" option.
Best regards,
Antonio.
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