Theodore Ts'o: I just caught a slight detail. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'll make a note in case it does.
You wrote: "For most (although admittedly not all) write errors, by the time the disk as returned an error, it has retried it a few times." ...specifically speaking of WRITE errors. In this case, it was a READ error, and writing allowed the disk to bypass (and fix) the error. (I suspect it's probable that the same basic mechanism still applies.) -- e2fsck / linux kernel chokes on I/O errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64914 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
