Re: New filesystem for Linux

[Phillip Susi]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> I've never seen this behaviour in a drive. All the drives I've seen mark 
> bad sectors as "pending reallocation", they they return read errors on 
> that sector unless they manage to jag a good read, in which case they 
> then reallocate the sector. Or else they wait for you to write to the 
> sector triggering a reallocation.

This is exactly what they are required to do by the relevant standards. 
 The drive can not silently discard data and reallocate the sector.  It 
either has to get a successful read of the old data, then reallocate, or 
wait for the host to write new data, and store that in the new location.


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