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Bug 479606 - sys-fs/dd-rescue - help the user to decide between ddrescue and dd_rescue
Summary: sys-fs/dd-rescue - help the user to decide between ddrescue and dd_rescue
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2013-08-03 08:14 UTC by Jonas Stein
Modified: 2018-04-29 17:44 UTC (History)
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Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2013-08-03 08:14:10 UTC
help the user to decide between ddrescue and dd_rescue by adding following lines to LONGDESCRIPTION
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The author notes on the website: Meanwhile, the tool GNU ddrescue has been developed and supercedes some of dd_rescue's functionality for what it was originally designed for. It's still useful though for some special features, such as direct IO, sparse copies, safe deletion (with a fast userspace pseudo random number generator), splice copies, preallocation...

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-01-17 05:45:15 UTC
Not sure if all those statements are true anymore after going and searching for the differences between the two of them today.