Hello!
When You clear a defective hard disk for privacy (dd if=/dev/zero
of=...) or in other similar appplications, it might be really convenient
to have the opposite of the "noerror" conversion available.
Unfortunately, this option does not exist.
I once made a quick patch, but it did not implement a correct skip/seek
for the output file with all the necessary error handling (I noticed
right now :-( ).
So this scheme might be what we need:
try_to_write_a_block()
if (write_error)
if (nowerror_conversion) {
if (!try_to_seek_behind_written_blocksize())
give_up_and_cry()
} else give_up_as_usual()
What do You think about such a complement for the "noerror" conversion
flag?
--
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Yours sincerely
Marian Eichholz
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