Re: [RFC v2 0/5] md/raid1: introduce a new sync action to repair badblocks

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 09:08:18AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 03/02/2026 à 08:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Just curious, but what kind of devices do you see that have
> > permanent bad blocks at a fixed location that are not fixed by
> > rewriting the sector?
> 
> I have seen this with several hard disk drives of various brands, even
> though SMART attribute #5 (reallocated sector count) had not reached the
> limit.

Weird.  Can you share the models?  I'm especially curious if these
are consumer of enterprise drives and of what vintage.