From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263002AbTJZMkG (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:40:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263083AbTJZMkG (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:40:06 -0500 Received: from linuxhacker.ru ([217.76.32.60]:62401 "EHLO shrek.linuxhacker.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263002AbTJZMkD (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:40:03 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:39:25 +0200 From: Oleg Drokin To: Hans Reiser Cc: ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp, vitaly@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results end Message-ID: <20031026123925.GA6412@linuxhacker.ru> References: <346101c39b9e$35932680$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <3F9BA98B.20408@namesys.com> <200310261259.h9QCxhWv004314@car.linuxhacker.ru> <3F9BB870.1010500@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F9BB870.1010500@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:05:04PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > >HR> Badblocks support is in reiser4, and anyone is welcome to update the > >HR> patch for V3, or sponsor us to do it. We are very low on cash, so we > >Actually that v3 patch does not do bad blocks remapping in case of > >write failure, it only does remapping when you manually ask it. > >And biggest part of badblocks support in reiser3 is in reiserfsck and tools > >(and in not that bad shape, last time I looked). > >As for remapping bad blocks on write failure, the only PC OS that was doing > >this that comes to my mind is Novell Netware (I think they called it a > >"hotfix" > >or something like that). > I wasn't saying we would do what is in Netware, and as far as being in Sure, I was not claiming this either, but original man seems to be implying such a feature as something common. > bad shape is concerned, from the user's point of view it either works or > it doesn't. Sure. And in modern desktop world it does not work (if SMART does not want to do it). Bye, Oleg