Re: Btrfs on a failing drive

2014-11-19 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Again, please stop taking this conversation private; keep the mailing list on the Cc. On 11/19/2014 11:37 AM, Fennec Fox wrote: well ive used spinrite and its found a few sectors and they never move so obviously the drives firmware isnt dealing

Re: Btrfs on a failing drive

2014-11-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please get in the habit of using your mail client's reply-to-all button instead of reply; there is no need for us to take this conversation private. On 11/17/2014 10:15 PM, Fennec Fox wrote: snip big smartctl output i know the drive is dying and

Re: Btrfs on a failing drive

2014-11-18 Thread Duncan
Phillip Susi posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:36:14 -0500 as excerpted: As I said before though, the errors you posted from dmesg don't indicate that the drive failed to read sectors, but rather that it returned incorrect data, and this is *NEVER* supposed to happen. I'd suggest running a few

Re: Btrfs on a failing drive

2014-11-17 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/17/2014 05:55 PM, Fennec Fox wrote: well i am an arch linux user and machine owner using a failing drive its still relyable enough for me but btrfs seems not to mark bad blocks as unusable and continues to try to write to them.

Re: Btrfs on a failing drive

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 17, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Fennec Fox fennect...@gmail.com wrote: well i am an arch linux user and machine owner using a failing drive its still relyable enough for me but btrfs seems not to mark bad blocks as unusable and continues to try to write to them. It’s supposed to do try to