From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 12:56:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 12:56:48 -0400 Received: from idiom.com ([216.240.32.1]:40716 "EHLO idiom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 12:56:39 -0400 Message-ID: <3B0D3C99.255B5A24@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:53:45 -0700 From: Hans Reiser Organization: Namesys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Andreas Dilger , monkeyiq , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nikita Danilov Subject: Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice. In-Reply-To: <200105240658.f4O6wEWq031945@webber.adilger.int> <20010524103145.A9521@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:58:14AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Well reiserfs is probably a very bad choice at this point. It > > does not have any bad blocks support (yet), so as soon as you have > > a bad block you are stuck. > > reiserfs doesn't, but the HD usually has transparently in its firmware. > So it hits a bad block; you see an IO error and the next time you hit > the block the firmware has mapped in a fresh one from its internal > reserves. > > -Andi > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ No, reiserfs does have badblock support!!!! You just have to get it as a separate patch from us because it was written after code freeze. Hans