Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
> Greg Sarsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've been very happy with it so far, because of its weakness with
> > badblock recovery.
>
> he was a good marketing guy then ...
> you know, the odds are high you'll never encounter a bad block on
> modern hd. (and in factory; they check for them, and after , the hd
> remap them with "free ones" at end of the disk).
> the modern disk are a lot more mechanically safe (ie for head falling
> on track) and i bet you'll have statically more destroyed disks than
> disk with badblocks. There, smart is for you. there's some smart
> packages in contrib.
>
> i don't know xfs internals but i don't think it can recover from all
> bad blocks. ie ext2fs has a map of them but if a sb or an
> {inode,free_blocs}-map got a badblock, you'll get in trouble :-(
Nope the guy wasn't a marketing guy, he was a coder. I agree that the
chances of a bad block are rare but think that XFS does have a better
chance of dealing with it.
Will try and find out what happens if an in the above case you
mentioned.
Greg
