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Re: XFS bad block recording?



> Basically even with ext2/ext3, with the drive failing spectacularly,
> it's pretty much game over for that drive.  EVMS and LVM may have
> addressed this issue where the LVM/EVMS layer is actually handling the
> physical disks and can reallocate bad blocks on the fly.

EVMS has a BBR module for this. But I agree with Eric Sandeen on this -
when your disk shows bad sectors and ran out of its internal remapping
space you should get rid of it ASAP.

-Andi