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From: "Peter" <sw98234-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
To: reiserfs-list-nJ1KrdHEGnBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: FEATURE Req: integrate badblocks check into fsck.reiser*
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:02:57 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <edae71$iqf$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 44F8B3C8.1050802@slaphack.com

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:27:20 -0500, David Masover wrote:
snip...
>> 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.

It was just a thought from userland. My perspective was that a user, not a
hard-boiled geek, might get lulled into a false sense of security but may
not have the wherewithal to write a wrapper. If nothing else, when the
final doc is written (did I say final?:)), it should include a notice
about not running badblocks.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-01 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-01 18:23 FEATURE Req: integrate badblocks check into fsck.reiser* Peter
2006-09-01 18:50 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2006-09-01 19:26   ` Hans Reiser
2006-09-01 22:27   ` David Masover
2006-09-01 23:00     ` Hans Reiser
2006-09-01 23:02     ` Peter [this message]
2006-09-01 23:12       ` David Masover
2006-09-01 23:16         ` Hans Reiser
2006-09-04  2:41         ` Ric Wheeler
2006-09-06  0:53           ` Hans Reiser
2006-09-06 15:08             ` David Masover
2006-09-07 10:35               ` Ric Wheeler
2006-09-07 16:22                 ` David Masover
2006-09-07 17:10                   ` Ric Wheeler
2006-09-07 17:35                     ` David Masover
2006-09-08 12:29                       ` Peter

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