Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:39:23 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them? |
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Norman Diamond wrote:
>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.] > > > > > badblocks program fixes that
-- Hans
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