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DateWed, 16 Jan 2008 20:05:28 +0000
FromAlan Cox <>
SubjectRe: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck)
> 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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