Re: [Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.20 released

[Scott Dwyer]

I am also sorry that I did not test this sooner. But I have busy on my 
own project, HDDSuperTool, which I have not had time to work on myself 
lately. And it takes time for me to update and test my patch for every 
release/pre-release of ddrescue so I made a decision a while back to not 
work on my patch for pre-release versions unless I had the extra time to 
spare. I would have thought someone else would have noticed something 
like this and reported it. I really hope that the lack of some others 
testing isn't because I did not release my passthrough patch for the 
pre-releases. I don't normally use ddrescue without my patch myself, and 
right now I don't use ddrescue very often.

I would like to add that I have noticed a bit of an anomaly with 1.20 
during the scraping phase. I have seen the error size and the error 
count fluctuate up and down a bit during a test. It is difficult for me 
to reproduce as I saw that toward the end of a test that took 14 hours.

Scott

On 9/21/2015 11:17 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Paul L Daniels wrote:
> > > If only bad blocks are going to be reported as
> > > errors, then ddrescue needs to report the non-trimmed and non-scraped
> > > blocks as well so the user can tell what is happening. I personally
> > > consider this something major and would suggest that you change it
> > > back until the extra error reporting can be added. That is just my
> > > opinion, but I feel it is worth voicing strongly.
> >
> >     I agree with this and would like to add my voice behind it as
> >     well.  I do understand the original intent but have found the
> >     same as Scott.   That said,  it's probably a good thing, as
> >     it'll be nice to have a breakdown on the non-trimmed/scraped
> >     stats (for now I concurrently run ddrescueview along side
> >     usually to get a deeper perspective of what's happening ).
>
> I'm glad you reported this, but I would be a lot more glad if you had 
> reported it six months ago when this change was introduced in 
> 1.20-pre1. ;-)
>
> About "changing it back", it is not possible because 'errsize' is 
> currently used, for example, to calculate the remaining time.
>
> I'll try to release 1.21-pre1 ASAP. I hope this time someone tests it.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Antonio.
>
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