Re: FEATURE Req: integrate badblocks check into fsck.reiser*

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

David Masover wrote:
> Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> On Friday 01 September 2006 22:23, Peter wrote:
>>> Perhaps this has been mentioned before. If so, sorry. IMHO, it would be
>>> useful to integrate a call to badblocks in the fsck/mkfs.reiser*
>>> programs
>>> so that more thorough disk checking can be done at format time. Sort of
>>> like the option e2fsck -c. If this is added, the output could be fed
>>> immediately to the reiser format program and badblocks spared prior to
>>> filesystem use.
>>>
>>> JM$0.02
>>
>> both mkfs.reiserfs and fsck.reiserfs have -B option to accept list of
>> bad blocks. We thought that should be enough.
>
> It really should.  Why bother with a patch?  Just write a wrapper
> script that runs badblocks and passes in the list to mkfs.
>
>
For average sysadmins, it would be nice to just add a flag and it
happens.  I will take a patch, but I won't write it.;-)