From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262251AbTJNIph (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:45:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262260AbTJNIph (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:45:37 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:7656 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262251AbTJNIpg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:45:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8BB7AE.2040507@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:45:34 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bradford CC: Rogier Wolff , Wes Janzen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happens to them? References: <32a101c3916c$e282e330$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <200310131014.h9DAEwY3000241@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <33a201c39174$2b936660$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031014064925.GA12342@bitwizard.nl> <3F8BA037.9000705@sbcglobal.net> <200310140721.h9E7LmNE000682@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20031014074020.GC13117@bitwizard.nl> <200310140811.h9E8Bxq1000831@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200310140811.h9E8Bxq1000831@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Perhaps we should tell people to first write to the bad block, and only if the block remains bad after triggering the remapping by writing to it should you make any effort to get the filesystem to remap it for you. What do you think? Rogier has not indicated that he has tried writing to the bad sector, has he? -- Hans