Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Feature request

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Chevy,

Your message was deleted as spam because it contained a png image. I 
quote it below.

Chevy wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been using ddrescue (command line) for the past 3 years and I'm
> completely in love with it. Such a powerful piece of software :D
>
> I thought it might be useful to have some sort of visual feedback (progress
> bar) that looks like this:
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> The bars mean that those areas were rescued successfully. The empty spaces
> mean that those areas are still pending (non-tried). May be there could
> also be broken bars *¦**¦**¦**¦**¦**¦**¦* that mean that those areas have
> failed and were left for later passes.
>
> Let me know what you think.

It would be nice to have such progress bar. The problem is that it is 
difficult, and probably very inefficient, to map potentially thousands 
of areas into 80 characters. Just think that every character in such 
progress bar would typically represent the status of millions of sectors.

BTW, the broken bar character is not in the portable character set, so 
it can't be used by ddrescue.

Maybe the bar could be made of numbers representing the fraction 
completed (from 1 to 9), which becomes a '+' or '-' after all the 
sectors represented by that character have been tried.

As always, feedback is welcome.


Best regards,
Antonio.