From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263424AbTDSRHA (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:07:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263426AbTDSRG7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:06:59 -0400 Received: from gw.enyo.de ([212.9.189.178]:15122 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263424AbTDSRG6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:06:58 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept? References: <20030419180421.0f59e75b.skraw@ithnet.com> From: Florian Weimer Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 19:18:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030419161011$0136@gated-at.bofh.it> (Stephan von Krawczynski's message of "Sat, 19 Apr 2003 18:10:11 +0200") Message-ID: <87lly6flrz.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephan von Krawczynski writes: > Most I came across have only small problems (few dead sectors), IDE disks automatically remap defective sectors, so you won't see any of them unless the disk is already quite broken. Some disks (notably the IBM DTLA series) cannot deal with sudden power failures during write operators. In such a case, the sector has an incorrect checksum and cannot be read until after the next write.