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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:22:01 +0300 Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> wrote: > On 21 April 2003 12:35, John Bradford wrote: > > > > Modern disks generally do this kind of thing themselves. By the > > > > time > > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > How many times does Stephan need to say it? 'Generally do' > > > is not enough, because it means 'sometimes they dont'. > > > > OK, _ALL_ modern disks do. > > > > Name an IDE or SCSI disk on sale today that doesn't retry on write > > failiure. Forget I said 'Generally do'. > > I don't know about drives currently on sale, but I think > it is possible that some Flash or DRAM-based IDE pseudo-disks > do not have extensive sector remapping features. They can just > do ECC thing and error out. Good example. Very good example, because it shows a possibility that some part of a "drive" may be technically damaged and have _no_ influence at all on the rest of the "media". > [...] > I prefer a big fat ugly kernel printk (KERN_ERR) across my console > and all the logs: "ext3fs: write error at sector #NNNN. Marking as bad. > Your disk may be failing!" I would favor that, too. > What's wrong with me? Maybe you don't own a good color copy station for printing your own money bills ... ;-) Regards, Stephan - 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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