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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: "Mudama, Eric" <eric_mudama@Maxtor.com>
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Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in
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Mudama, Eric wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Hans Reiser [mailto:reiser@namesys.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 2:25 AM
>>To: Norman Diamond
>>Cc: Mudama, Eric; 'Wes Janzen '; 'Rogier Wolff '; 'John Bradford ';
>>linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; nikita@namesys.com; 'Pavel Machek ';
>>'Justin Cormack '; 'Russell King '; 'Vitaly Fertman '; 
>>'Krzysztof Halasa
>>'
>>Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in
>>
>>
>>Norman Diamond wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>What would you like "us disk makers" to say?
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>How to force reallocations even when data are lost, 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>buy Maxtor and write to them, thereby triggering the remap.
>>    
>>
>
>It isn't necessarilly that simple. ]
>
Can you explain? 

>However, if the drive is still alive, it
>has written your data to a place where it can get at it again.  
>
>
>  
>


-- 
Hans