[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.21-pre2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.21-pre2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.21-pre2.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
4477688c38ad2f422a92968b78ef3b68d14b2c7d  ddrescue-1.21-pre2.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or 
block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the 
good parts first in case of read errors.

Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue mapfiles, shows mapfile 
contents, converts mapfiles to/from other formats, compares mapfiles, 
tests rescue status, and can delete a mapfile if the rescue is done.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html


Changes in this version:

  * The mapfile is now "fsync'ed" every 5 minutes because some systems 
seem to never write the mapfile to disc.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.