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    SubjectRe: Blockbusting news, results end
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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.
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    Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH
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