From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC8FC433DF for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9AA206B5 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726633AbgHRTlv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:41:51 -0400 Received: from vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net ([153.92.174.90]:61655 "EHLO vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726635AbgHRTlv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:41:51 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 402 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:41:50 EDT Received: from vsmx004.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.198]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12503F34FA8; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lazy.lzy (unknown [93.212.119.244]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B223919AE19; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:34:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lazy.lzy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lazy.lzy (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 07IJYuKW004140 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:34:56 +0200 Received: (from red@localhost) by lazy.lzy (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 07IJYu15004139; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:34:56 +0200 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:34:56 +0200 From: Piergiorgio Sartor To: Wols Lists Cc: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , Linux RAID Mailing List , =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kon?= Subject: Re: Feature request: Remove the badblocks list Message-ID: <20200818193456.GA4066@lazy.lzy> References: <75076966.1748398.1597773608869.JavaMail.zimbra@karlsbakk.net> <5F3C2B4F.1050708@youngman.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5F3C2B4F.1050708@youngman.org.uk> X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 08:26:07PM +0100, Wols Lists wrote: > On 18/08/20 19:00, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > As far as I can understand, this list doesn't have any reason to exist, except to annoy sysadmins. > > Actually, there's at least one good reason for it to exist that I can > think of - it *could* make recovering a broken array much easier. Think > about it, I think it's documented in the wiki. > > That said, I'm hoping to do some work soon that will make it redundant. > > One little tip though - you've done a load of research to tell us what > we already know - as documented on the wiki - and now you're asking us > to do a load of work. If you want it done, well nobody else has bothered > so far so what makes you think they'll bother now? Is it really "a load of work" to switch for default "on" to default "off"? Because that's what he is asking. If this is the case, there is something more broken in the code... BTW, I find it quite problematic too to have a feature, activated by default, which is _officially_ declared as *buggy*/ bye, -- piergiorgio