From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263275AbTJUThr (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:37:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263280AbTJUThr (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:37:47 -0400 Received: from virt-216-40-198-21.ev1servers.net ([216.40.198.21]:39438 "EHLO virt-216-40-198-21.ev1servers.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263275AbTJUThq (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:37:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:31:28 -0500 From: Chuck Campbell To: Norman Diamond Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in Message-ID: <20031021193128.GA18618@helium.inexs.com> Reply-To: campbell@accelinc.com Mail-Followup-To: Chuck Campbell , Norman Diamond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <175701c397e6$b36e5310$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <175701c397e6$b36e5310$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:18:33AM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote: > It still seems that either Linux must > be made to work around known bad blocks or else hard disks and Linux cannot > be used together on a computer. That is a bit of a troll. I suspect that 70 - 90 percent of linux installations on a computer are using hard disks. Yet the number of people having the same problem as you doesn't appear to be 100% of those. Making intentionally inflammatory statements to try and win others to your point of view tends to do exactly the opposite. If there are enough people experiencing the problem, it gets fixed, at least as far as I can tell. There have been a nunmber of viable ideas proposed in this thread to handle the situation you are talking about, and while none of them are exactly what you proposed, feel free to write code. Baiting comments like the above don't really accomplish anything constructive. -chuck --