Messages in this thread | | | From | "Norman Diamond" <> | Subject | Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them? | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:23:37 +0900 |
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Hans Reiser wrote:
> I think the problem is that many users don't know how to trigger the bad > sector remapping for the case where the drive can still remap, using > writes to the bad blocks, and probably our faq needs updating.
This is indeed one of the problems[*]. The other problem is that it seems to be absurdly difficult to find which file contains the bad sector. Even though a file could have multiple hard links, it would be enough to get one pathname for the file, in order to know which file needs to be reconstructed from a source of good data.
[* Of course I also wish that the original failing write had been detected by the drive, but this failure isn't software's fault. I hope.]
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