Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Proposed ddrescue improvement

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Neil,

Neil Steiner wrote:
> Thank you again for taking the time to reply to me.  I wouldn't have 
> expected a development team to offer end-user advice, but I much 
> appreciate it.

There are very nice people in this list. :-)


> I have a small suggestion that might benefit other ddrescue users as
> it would have benefited me:  Adding a command line option to enable
> periodic sync() calls, to force the OS to flush its buffers.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Calling 'sync' may be too much. I think it would be better to 'fsync' 
also the mapfile when --synchronous is requested.

As always feedback is welcome. If nobody suggests anything better, I'll 
release a new version in a few days.


Best regards,
Antonio.