On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 06:00:59PM +0400, Vyacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> Anyway, thank you for the report.

Big thanks to you for caring about the project!

> > I think you can reproduce something similar with loopback mounting if
> > you modify the driver to return read error for some particular sectors
> > that cleanerd wants to access when it starts cleaning.
> 
> Yes, it is a good idea. I'll try it. But I worry only that it is
> possible to investigate not the issue that was reported by you.

I think what's important is to keep in mind the following failure
scenario: a misbehaving media suddenly starts returning read errors
consistently for a number of sectors until the whole erase block is
written to.

I also found two nice options to simulate my situation:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1870696/simulate-a-faulty-block-device-with-read-errors

Good luck and happy hacking.
Spasibo!
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