Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:39:25 +0200 | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, results end |
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Hello!
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:05:04PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > >HR> Badblocks support is in reiser4, and anyone is welcome to update the > >HR> patch for V3, or sponsor us to do it. We are very low on cash, so we > >Actually that v3 patch does not do bad blocks remapping in case of > >write failure, it only does remapping when you manually ask it. > >And biggest part of badblocks support in reiser3 is in reiserfsck and tools > >(and in not that bad shape, last time I looked). > >As for remapping bad blocks on write failure, the only PC OS that was doing > >this that comes to my mind is Novell Netware (I think they called it a > >"hotfix" > >or something like that). > I wasn't saying we would do what is in Netware, and as far as being in
Sure, I was not claiming this either, but original man seems to be implying such a feature as something common.
> bad shape is concerned, from the user's point of view it either works or > it doesn't.
Sure. And in modern desktop world it does not work (if SMART does not want to do it).
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