Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:21:57 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks? |
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Hi!
> > Assuming the drive's inherent bad-block detection mechanisms don't find it > > and remap it on a read first, rapidly consuming the spare block reserve. But > > that's a firmware problem... > > Drives should never reassign blocks on read operations, because they'd > take away the chance to try to read that block for say four hours.
Why not? If drive gets ECC-correctable read error, it seems to me like good time to reassign. Pavel -- "I do not steal MS software. It is not worth it." -- Pavel Kankovsky - 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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