From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263014AbTJZMFM (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:05:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263015AbTJZMFM (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:05:12 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:40081 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263014AbTJZMFG (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:05:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3F9BB870.1010500@namesys.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:05:04 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Drokin CC: ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp, vitaly@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results end References: <346101c39b9e$35932680$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <3F9BA98B.20408@namesys.com> <200310261259.h9QCxhWv004314@car.linuxhacker.ru> In-Reply-To: <200310261259.h9QCxhWv004314@car.linuxhacker.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Oleg Drokin wrote: >Hans Reiser wrote: > >HR> Badblocks support is in reiser4, and anyone is welcome to update the >HR> patch for V3, or sponsor us to do it. We are very low on cash, so we > >Actually that v3 patch does not do bad blocks remapping in case of >write failure, it only does remapping when you manually ask it. >And biggest part of badblocks support in reiser3 is in reiserfsck and tools >(and in not that bad shape, last time I looked). >As for remapping bad blocks on write failure, the only PC OS that was doing >this that comes to my mind is Novell Netware (I think they called it a "hotfix" >or something like that). > >Bye, > Oleg > > > > I wasn't saying we would do what is in Netware, and as far as being in bad shape is concerned, from the user's point of view it either works or it doesn't. -- Hans