Re: Blockbusting news, results end

[Hans Reiser]

Oleg Drokin wrote:

> Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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


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