Re: XFS bad block recording?

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:45:25PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> The short answer is "no," and the longer answer is that by the time
> a modern drive is showing bad blocks to the user, it's a short trip
> to the dumpster, IMHO!

It's a pretty rotten answer really :)

I agree that since most (all?) modern drive transparently remap errors
until the 'grown' table (or equivalent) is full that if you see errors
your disk is in terrible shape and has been for some time, but it
doesn't seem unreasonable for someone to want to mark part of the disk
bad and have the fs avoid this.

Almost ever other fs I can think of allows this kind of thing.



  --cw