Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Blockbusting news, results end | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | 27 Oct 2003 11:48:57 +0100 |
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"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp> writes:
> Bingo. This is why reallocation at the time of a failed read is also > necessary. Yes the data are lost, yes the failure needs to be both logged > (once)
The log entry may be easily lost. Especially when the drive is failing.
> and displayed to the user (once),
To which user??? Hard drive sectors have no users.
> yes if an application reads it > again before writing then it will be garbage or zeroes,
I hope drive makers won't take it seriously.
> but get the LBA > sector number moved to a place that is less likely to be unreliable.
So you rather want to read garbage than get a real I/O error. The only situation I can imagine which benefits from such an approach is playing an audio-video stream.
> Meanwhile software must still make up for defective firmware.
Yeah. yeah. Only "if (drive_is_toshiba()) BUG()" comes to my mind. -- Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH - 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/
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