On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Digital Wokan wrote:
> I'm going to attempt installing Cooker again, and I just noticed that
> after partitioning the drive, the advanced format options won't let me
> check for bad blocks on the ReiserFS partitions. (That's another thing
> I didn't like about my flirts with RH7.1 today. No Reiser on install.)
> Is it normal not to be able to check RFS for bad blocks or was that a
> goof?
Yes, that's normal. Reiserfs does not support drives with bad blocks \8(
There may be patch somewhere to support this, but i don't know if it's
included in the mdk kernel.
BTW, anyone know if JFS supports bad block marking/scanning?
If your drive has bad blocks, better go with ext3.
