Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com) writes:
> No, I said that there was no way to get the kernel to add to the
> badblocks list automatically. You have to do it from user space:
> e2fsck has options to add specific blocks to the bad block list, or
> to do a surface scan and add any bad blocks it finds. It can even
> relocate critical fs structures like bitmaps around any bad blocks
> it finds.
Can e2fsck add to the badblock list of a mounted file system? This would be
useful for the case where the kernel detects a bad block, makes an entry in
/proc somewhere, and a userland program sees it, runs e2fsck to add the bad
block, and the ext2 driver sees it and does the right thing.
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