Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2001 09:53:45 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice. |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. > > -Andi > - > 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/
No, reiserfs does have badblock support!!!!
You just have to get it as a separate patch from us because it was written after code freeze.
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