Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] md/raid1: introduce a new sync action to repair badblocks

[Pascal Hambourg]

On 06/01/2026 at 03:44, Zheng Qixing wrote:
> 在 2025/12/31 19:11, Roman Mamedov 写道:
> > On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:09:47 +0800
> >
> > Could you also check here that it reads back successfully, and only 
> > then clear?
> >
> > Otherwise there are cases when the block won't read even after 
> > rewriting it.

I confirm. The rewrite is reported successful but SMART reallocation 
attributes did not change and a further read still fails.

> I'm a bit worried that reading the data again before clearing the bad 
> blocks might affect the performance of the bad block repair process.

Isn't it more worrying to clear bad blocks while they may still be bad ?
Bad blocks should be rare anyway, so performance impact should be low.

> > Side note, on some hardware it might be necessary to rewrite a larger area
> > around the problematic block, to finally trigger a remap. Not 512B, but at
> > least the native sector size, which is often 4K.
>
> Are you referring to the case where we have logical 512B sectors but 
> physical 4K sectors?

Yes. Writing a single logical sector implies a read-modify-write of the 
whole underlying physical sector and will not complete if the read fails.

> Can a physical 4K block have partial recovery (e.g., one 512B sector 
> succeeds while the other 7 fail)?

Not in my experience. There seems to be a single ECC for the whole 
physical sector.