From: Stewart Smith <stewartsmith@mac.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:11:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <791E70DC-76B2-11D7-BE62-00039346F142@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lly6flrz.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 03:18 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> IDE disks automatically remap defective sectors, so you won't see any
> of them unless the disk is already quite broken.
IIRC:
A drive that has trouble reading a sector will remap it. If the sector
is dead and it can't read it at all, you're screwed and you don't get
your data. This is why you still see 'unreadable sector' error messages
from your drive.
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-19 16:04 Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept? Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-19 15:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-19 17:00 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-19 22:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-20 16:24 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-20 13:59 ` John Bradford
2003-04-20 16:55 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-20 17:12 ` John Bradford
2003-04-20 17:21 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-20 18:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-20 20:00 ` John Bradford
2003-04-21 1:51 ` jw schultz
2003-04-19 21:13 ` Jos Hulzink
2003-04-20 16:07 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-20 16:40 ` John Bradford
2003-04-20 17:01 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-20 17:20 ` John Bradford
2003-04-21 9:32 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-21 9:55 ` John Bradford
2003-04-21 11:24 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-21 11:50 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-21 12:14 ` John Bradford
2003-04-19 16:22 ` John Bradford
2003-04-19 16:36 ` Russell King
2003-04-19 16:45 ` John Bradford
2003-04-19 16:52 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-19 20:04 ` John Bradford
2003-04-19 20:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-04-21 9:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-04-21 9:42 ` John Bradford
2003-04-21 10:25 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-21 10:50 ` John Bradford
2003-04-19 20:38 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-20 14:21 ` John Bradford
2003-04-21 9:09 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-04-21 9:35 ` John Bradford
2003-04-21 11:03 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-21 12:04 ` John Bradford
2003-04-21 11:22 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-04-21 11:46 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-21 12:13 ` John Bradford
2003-04-19 20:05 ` John Bradford
2003-04-19 23:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-04-19 17:54 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-04-25 0:07 ` Stewart Smith
2003-04-25 0:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-25 7:13 ` John Bradford
[not found] ` <20030419161011$0136@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-04-19 17:18 ` Florian Weimer
2003-04-19 18:07 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-19 18:41 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-04-19 20:56 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-19 21:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-20 10:51 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-20 19:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-19 21:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-20 10:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-21 8:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-05-05 12:38 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-19 22:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-20 8:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-25 0:11 ` Stewart Smith [this message]
2003-04-20 15:06 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-20 15:19 ` John Bradford
2003-04-20 17:03 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-20 17:25 ` John Bradford
2003-04-20 17:28 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-21 9:36 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-20 17:28 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-20 17:44 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-20 17:44 Chuck Ebbert
[not found] <mail.linux.kernel/20030420185512.763df745.skraw@ithnet.com>
[not found] ` <03Apr21.020150edt.41463@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>
2003-04-21 11:19 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-04-21 11:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-21 14:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-06 7:03 ` Mike Fedyk
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