Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2001 10:31:45 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice. |
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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:58:14AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Well reiserfs is probably a very bad choice at this point. It > does not have any bad blocks support (yet), so as soon as you have > a bad block you are stuck.
reiserfs doesn't, but the HD usually has transparently in its firmware. So it hits a bad block; you see an IO error and the next time you hit the block the firmware has mapped in a fresh one from its internal reserves.
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