Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:41:46 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: document ext3 requirements |
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On Mon, 05 Jan 2009, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes: > > Rob> On Monday 05 January 2009 05:19:13 Alan Cox wrote: > >> You could of course just learn to use the functions the kernel > >> provides. If you want to recover disk blocks without retrying you > >> can do that via SG_IO. If you want to adjust the timeout and retry > >> levels you can do that too via sysfs. > > 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.
-- Matthias Andree
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