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

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Thanks to all for the feedback.

I tend to agree with Scott in that skipping unused space can't possibly 
work with any sort of consistency. Therefore I'll forget about it until 
someone shows with data that it can be useful. For example showing a 
correspondence between unused sectors and sectors containing the empty 
pattern, plus a bitmap showing that the used sectors are grouped. If the 
used sectors are scattered, then finding them is, as Scott said, like 
playing roulette.


Thanks,
Antonio.