Re: [reiserfs-list] 'let the hdd remap the bad blocks'

2002-08-20 Thread Matthias Andree
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just taking a guess, many hard drives have difficult and time-consuming procedures that they can go through to read a troublesome block. These can take 20-30 seconds. Probably if they have to go through these procedures, once they finally succeed the

Re: [reiserfs-list] 'let the hdd remap the bad blocks'

2002-08-20 Thread Hans Reiser
Matthias Andree wrote: Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just taking a guess, many hard drives have difficult and time-consuming procedures that they can go through to read a troublesome block. These can take 20-30 seconds. Probably if they have to go through these procedures, once

Re: [reiserfs-list] 'let the hdd remap the bad blocks'

2002-08-20 Thread Matthias Andree
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Hans Reiser wrote: Vitaly, take a look at that. Part of a good user interface is letting users know what tools are available. Remember, most users will encounter a failing drive and/or fsck on a journaling fs as a rare and stressful event in their lives, so it is

Re: [reiserfs-list] 'let the hdd remap the bad blocks'

2002-08-19 Thread Matthias Andree
Oleg Drokin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically uyou'd better search for this on HDD vendors sites. What's going on is simply can be described this way: You write some block to HDD, if HDD decides the block is bad for some reason and remapping is allowed (usually by tiurning on

Re: [reiserfs-list] 'let the hdd remap the bad blocks'

2002-08-19 Thread Hans Reiser
Oleg Drokin wrote: Hello! Basically uyou'd better search for this on HDD vendors sites. What's going on is simply can be described this way: You write some block to HDD, if HDD decides the block is bad for some reason and remapping is allowed (usually by tiurning on SMART), block is