Hello Hervé, Hervé Bérenger wrote:
Thanks a lot for this great soft, ddrescue !
You are welcome! :-)
A short anecdote : the drive capacity was 400Go ; retrieving all the data was taking ages, so I looked at the code to check whether I could improve it and realized it used the "open" function to access the peripheral. "/Ah ah/", I thought, "/why not use fopen, which is said to be faster ?/". Certainly a bad idea !
On posix systems, 'fopen' is usually built on top of 'open', so it should not be faster. 'open' is also lower level and does provide more control than 'fopen'.
Morality : I'll think twice next time I fancy I could be smarter than the software author (because most often I won't !)
At least it is a good idea to not make experiments in the middle of a real rescue.
Thanks again (I've just made a donation through paypal),
Thank you very much for supporting the development of ddrescue. Best regards, Antonio. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
