[Bug-ddrescue] Trimming failed blocks -- errsize being reduced -- no need to run with -r ?

[Matt Rohrer]

Hi all,

First as others have said, thanks to Antonio and all other
contributors for a wonderful tool. I will definitely be donating via
paypal.

Below you can see the result of my ddrescue run, which has now been
grinding away for 8+ days on a 160g drive. Currently the recovery is
in the "Trimming failed blocks" phase and the errsize is being reduced
while the rescued count is increasing.

Does this mean that I will not have to rerun the tool with the -r
option? Pointers to documentation about exactly what is happening in
this phase are appreciated.

Thanks again,
Matt

minerva:~ root# ddrescue -vn /dev/disk2 /dev/disk1 minerva-recovery.log


About to copy 9223 PBytes from /dev/disk2 to /dev/disk1
    Starting positions: infile = 0 B,  outfile = 0 B
    Copy block size: 128 hard blocks
Hard block size: 512  bytes
Max_retries: 0
Direct: no    Sparse: no    Split: no    Truncate: no

Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued:         0 B,  errsize:       0 B,  errors:       0
Current status
rescued:   159432 MB,  errsize:    609 MB,  current rate:    21504 B/s
   ipos:    26316 MB,   errors:    9090,    average rate:     275 kB/s
   opos:    26316 MB,     time from last successful read:       0 s
Trimming failed blocks...