Re: Why are bad disk sectors numbered strangely, and what happensto them?

[Hans Reiser]

Norman Diamond wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I think the problem is that many users don't know how to trigger the bad
> > sector remapping for the case where the drive can still remap, using
> > writes to the bad blocks, and probably our faq needs updating.
> >    
>
> This is indeed one of the problems[*].  The other problem is that it seems
> to be absurdly difficult to find which file contains the bad sector.  Even
> though a file could have multiple hard links, it would be enough to get one
> pathname for the file, in order to know which file needs to be reconstructed
> from a source of good data.
>
> [* Of course I also wish that the original failing write had been detected
> by the drive, but this failure isn't software's fault.  I hope.]
>
>
>
>  
badblocks program fixes that

--
Hans


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