Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:05:15 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, results are in |
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Chuck Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:18:33AM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote: > > It still seems that either Linux must > > be made to work around known bad blocks or else hard disks and Linux cannot > > be used together on a computer. > > That is a bit of a troll. I suspect that 70 - 90 percent of linux > installations on a computer are using hard disks. Yet the number of people > having the same problem as you doesn't appear to be 100% of those. > > Making intentionally inflammatory statements to try and win others to your > point of view tends to do exactly the opposite. > > If there are enough people experiencing the problem, it gets fixed, at least > as far as I can tell. There have been a nunmber of viable ideas proposed > in this thread to handle the situation you are talking about, and while > none of them are exactly what you proposed, feel free to write code. Baiting > comments like the above don't really accomplish anything constructive. > > -chuck
I thought both ext2 and ext3 do handle bad-blocks. They just don't make them owned by a "file" because the Unix file-systems don't require dummy directory entries.
If the respondent wants them isolated into a "BADBLOCKS" file, he can make a utility to do that. It's really quite easy because you can raw-read disks under Linux, plus there is already the `badblocks` program that will locate them.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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