Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Thanks !

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

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.