On Sun, 31 May 2026 at 22:36, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 31, 2026, at 12:25 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, I was thinking about that. But having to create new filesystems is a > > little different from having to do a full format in ignorance of which > > blocks > > were already marked as bad. > > It also probably wasn’t very common to do this kind of cross-platform > device-swapping back then. And I suspect that people who did it were > perfectly OK with “welp, gotta low-level format!”. > > (Actual grey-beards, please chime in!)
At City university when the Gould PowerNode UTX-32 systems were retired, the Fujitsu SuperEagles running on the 6040 NFS server were moved to a Sun4/370. Unfortunately I wasn't directly involved (it was *just* before my time), so I have no useful notes, though they were reformatted to UFS and I would have expected "just" low level formatted at the same time. I can say we were glad to have them, as the garbage drives Sun shipped in the '370 sized deskside units repeatedly vibrated themselves into non-function as the "ancient" SuperEagles Just Kept Running... David
