Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Slow reads for x time to exit and whitespace skipping

[Rog Fanther]

My 2 cents :

What would constitute an "empty" part ? Sometimes, blocks filled with 00 or 
FF or any value may be legitimate parts of a file.
To know which blocks are really used for files, ddrescue would have to 
analyse the filesystem allocation and, at least to me, that seems to disrupt 
the idea of cloning the disk.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Antonio Diaz Diaz" <address@hidden>
To: "Cameron Andrews" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Slow reads for x time to exit and whitespace 
skipping


> Hi Cameron,
>
> >
> Skipping the empty parts of the drive will have to wait until 1.23. I also 
> will need more feedback about how should ddrescue decide if a block is 
> empty.
>
> Thank you very much for your donation.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Antonio.
>
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