Re: ddrescue reports Finished before disk writing is complete.

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Eric Lovejoy wrote:
> So then you get impossibly fast write times, and boot disks that dont work,
> because they arent actually complete, if the user removes the disk when
> ddrescue reports that the operation is complete.

Have you tried the option '--synchronous'[1]? Else the kernel may cache all 
the writes and pretend that it has finished.

[1] 
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html#Invoking-ddrescue

-y
--synchronous
  Use synchronous writes for outfile. (Issue a fsync call after every write).

> I'm just a dumb construction worker, but if i had to guess, ddrescue is
> listening to userspace libraries, rather than kernel signal processes.

How does one portably listen to kernel signal processes (whatever these are)?

Regards,
Antonio.