SFSSalv recovery speed

[paul1981]

I've never had to use SFSSalv before. All I can think of is to make sure that the corrupted partition has plenty of disk buffers (1000+).
I'd be interested to know how it's become corrupted though. Does it even mount? What were you doing at the time of corruption?
Anyway, hope it speeds up a bit for you...
Maybe you could e-mail the author? He may be able to answer your question.

[paul1981]

I've had to use it many, many times... In this case, the machine locked up and on reboot one partition was corrupt.

Sounds like the machine was locking up due to an upset filesystem in some way, being as though after lockup you get filesystem corruption. This should never happen. Maybe the new version will fix this for you, but I suspect something else is playing a part here.