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From: Graham Cobb <g.btrfs@cobb.uk.net>
To: Christopher Staples <mastercatz@gmail.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bad sector / bad block support
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:42:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dab2a48c-6cdd-984e-50b8-c75b5f1f9455@cobb.uk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1473267-688c-201f-11e5-64761ad51f79@gmail.com>

On 27/11/2019 14:15, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> On 2019-11-26 22:30, Christopher Staples wrote:
>> will their ever be a better way to handle bad sectors ?  I keep
>> getting silent corruption from random bad sectors
>> scrubs keep passing with out showing any errors , but if I do a
>> ddrescue backup to a new drive I find the bad sectors
> Zygo is correct, if there are no checksum errors, it's almost certainly
> not the storage device.
> 
> Put simply, for a media error to cause corruption without a checksum
> error, all of the following need to happen at the same time:

Or, of course, be using NOCOW (or other no-checksum) files.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-27 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-27  3:30 bad sector / bad block support Christopher Staples
2019-11-27  3:48 ` Zygo Blaxell
2019-11-27 14:15 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2019-11-27 15:42   ` Graham Cobb [this message]
2019-11-28  1:23 ` Chris Murphy

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