Bug 479606

Summary:	sys-fs/dd-rescue - help the user to decide between ddrescue and dd_rescue
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonas Stein <jstein>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.