From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Bad block on IDE drive causes it to be kicked out of the array
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:16:38 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: message from Chris Chabot on Monday July 8
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On Monday July 8, chabotc@xs4all.nl wrote:
> 
> is there any way to create the array, and just mark these blocks bad in the
> file system, as you would with a 'normal' drive?
> 
No.

(if you use raid5, you care about your data, and if you care about
your data, you don't use a drive with bad blocks.  Atleast, that is my
logic.)

NeilBrown