From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mike Tran <mhtran@us.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: raid and sleeping bad sectors
Date: 29 Jun 2004 17:20:16 -0500
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On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:51, Guy wrote:
> But!!!
> Most disks, if not all, already re-map bad blocks on write.  So, how will
> EVMS help?  The disk can't do anything about a read error!  Only a redundant
> system like md or a hardware raid can fix a read error.
> 
> Guy

Think of BBR as "addition" to hardware bad block relocation :)

Mike T.