Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2001 08:46:06 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | Subject | Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice. |
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At 12:19 PM +0200 2001-05-24, Jens Axboe wrote: >In fact you will typically only see an I/O error if the drive _can't_ >remap the sector anymore, because it has run out. No point in reporting >a condition that was recovered. > >I'd still say, that if you get bad block errors reported from your disk >it's long overdue for replacement.
This can't be right. It implies that the drive is returning bogus data with no error indication. Remapping a bad sector is not the same as recovering it. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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