Re: disk failure

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Vitaly Fertman wrote:

>Hi, 
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>>bread: Cannot read a block # 218118.
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>>Aborted
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>Now the problem is that I cannot acces my hard disk,
>>because the journal is totally absent. Do you know if
>>there is some option I can give to reiserfsck in order to
>>ignore the hardware error and keep rebuilding the tree?
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>we are still working on badblock support in reiserfs, but it 
>is not finished yet. So if your partition has some badblocks
>you should dd_rescue this partition to some spare partition 
>and fsck the copy. 
>
>Alternatively, you can try to write to this block with dd, then 
>the drive will probably remap this block and it will disappear.
>
Can you have the tool you write prompt the user, ask if the user would 
like that attempted, and if it works then inform the user that it worked?

>
>If you need more details you can either look through reiserfs-list
>mail archive or pay us for the support on the base of our 
>support.html terms.
>
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>>Thanks a lot for your help.
>>
>>Vinxe
>>
>>P.S. reiserfsck version is:
>>
>><-------------reiserfsck, 2002------------->
>>reiserfsprogs 3.6.3
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>This is an old version of reiserfsprogs, get the latest one from 
>our ftp site please.
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Hans