Re: xfs i/O error

Michael Monnerie
2009-07-31T09:07:45Z

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On Freitag 31 Juli 2009 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Read errors can be somewhat recoverable, if you write to that sector
> it will remap if it can.

Yes, but I've never seen a disk who did not get other broken sectors
later. When a disk starts to get bad sectors, others will come, just
like a virus. Therefore: you get a bad sector -> replace disk. That's by
far less pain and cheaper than the other scenario.

mfg zmi
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