Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Nov 2002 13:30:41 -0800 | From | Ross Biro <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] Failed writes marked clean? |
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Andrew Morton wrote:
>Also, think about what a write error _means_. Unless the disk is truly >ancient, it means that the device has run out of alternate space for >the block, or all writes are failing. ie: it is a serious failure. > > I've seen all sorts of interesting drive failure modes, including losing communications with the drive for a short period and then having it come back almost as good as new. We've had some data corruption on flaky drives and I'm guessing this has something to do with it.
I'm going to sit down with our application developers and see what they want to see from their end and see what I can do.
Ross
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