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    SubjectRe: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks?
    Hi!

    > > > 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.
    >
    > Because you don't know if it's just some slipped bits, a shutdown during
    > write, or an actual fault. When that happens on a verify after write,
    > that's indeed reasonable. Otherwise the drive should just mark that
    > block as "watch closely on next write".

    Or better "write back and verify". You do not want even *ECC
    correctable* errors to be on your platters.
    Pavel
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