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From: Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>
Subject: Re: bad block management
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:31:00 -0400
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jyotiv wrote:
> ok, i agree with u.
> Can I know why reiserfs is handling bag blocks?
> 
> Rgrds,
> Kgp
> 

Bad block handling in UNIX file systems is a really, really old feature (dating 
back to the 70's). I assume that reiserfs, when it was originally written still 
had some exposure to older drives of that era and assumed is was a useful 
feature to add.

Personally, I would not put this kind of feature into any new file system being 
written today ;-)

ric