From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: what data resides on a given block Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:18:01 +0400 Message-ID: <20020605181801.A25034@namesys.com> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20020605145712.01ba40f0@pop.tvnet.hu> <5.0.2.1.2.20020605145712.01ba40f0@pop.tvnet.hu> <5.0.2.1.2.20020605155413.01ba34b8@pop.tvnet.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20020605155413.01ba34b8@pop.tvnet.hu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Newsmail Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:04:35PM +0100, Newsmail wrote: > actually the exemple tells me to make a new reiserfs filesystem, then make > whatever file I want, and 'assign those bad blocks to that file'. Actually > I dont have the possibility to reformat my drive, and I have some files > residings on the bad blocks. I would like to know what will happen if I use > the add-bad-block program on my filesystem where those bad blocks are > occupied by an already existing file. actually I'M aware of some files that > are on those bad blocks, but I'm sure there are others that I dont know > about. so if I use the add-bad-block program, will this work just fine, and > will the bad blocks be deactived 'forever' or it will just wont work at > all, for exemple when I try to delete afterwards a file that contained > those blocks before. sorry if I have a bad english, No, it does not work if you have a file over the badblocks. So you need to delete files taht contains badblocks before using add-bad-block program. BTW, there is some work is going on to have more mature badblocks supports for reiserfs. Bye, Oleg