From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263547AbTDTI3y (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2003 04:29:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263548AbTDTI3y (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2003 04:29:54 -0400 Received: from node-d-1ea6.a2000.nl ([62.195.30.166]:34542 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263547AbTDTI3x (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2003 04:29:53 -0400 Subject: Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept? From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Alan Cox Cc: Florian Weimer , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1050789745.3961.19.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <20030419180421.0f59e75b.skraw@ithnet.com> <87lly6flrz.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <1050789745.3961.19.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Qp5loyMlFJkdyZS7xtxx" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1050828106.1412.7.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 (1.2.4-2) Date: 20 Apr 2003 10:41:46 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-Qp5loyMlFJkdyZS7xtxx Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 00:02, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2003-04-19 at 18:18, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Stephan von Krawczynski writes: > >=20 > > > Most I came across have only small problems (few dead sectors), > >=20 > > IDE disks automatically remap defective sectors, so you won't see any > > of them unless the disk is already quite broken. >=20 > You will if it writes and fails to read back. The disk can't invent a > sector that is gone.=20 but linux can if you use an raid1 mirror... maybe we should teach the md layer to write back the data from the other disk on a "bad sector" error. --=-Qp5loyMlFJkdyZS7xtxx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+ol1JxULwo51rQBIRAtbIAJ9RMl+WJqWfM0d07tlghGNvEM8D0QCeLC8u Re63l4ITwRY1l9zRuADzO0s= =Bq9a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Qp5loyMlFJkdyZS7xtxx--