Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:05:28 +0000 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck) |
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> And I think there's a problem with drives that, upon sensing the > unreadable sector, assign an alternate even though the sector is fine, and > you eventually run out of spares.
You are assuming drives can't tell the difference between stray data loss and sectors that can't be recovered by rewriting and reuse. I was under the impression modern drives could do this ?
Alan
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