> On May 27, 2026, at 5:06 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 09:43:17AM -0400, Jason Thorpe wrote: >> >>> On May 27, 2026, at 8:15???AM, Anders Magnusson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> bad144 is not used by NetBSD/vax. >> >> Well, that???s . . . awkward :-) > > The executable may not be built, but don't the drivers (or the disklabel > code -- yow!!) still respect the bad sector lists? The most likely use > I can see for STD 144 handling in the kernel is if one needs to read a > disk, or even a disk image, which has sectors reallocated using this > mechanism.
The individual drivers have to consult the table, and .. precious few of them actually do. > A middle ground between effectively putting this back into the individual > drivers whence it came and ripping it out totally might be to add a utility > that reads the remapping data, and then constructs a disk image that doesn't > need it. The responsibility is already on individual drivers. -- thorpej
