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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:05:41 +0100
From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: "Hack inc." <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Detecting disk I/O errors
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Is there a way to know if there has been I/O error(s) on a specific
disk or partition since boot other than parsing dmesg and hoping it's
both still there and in the expected format?

Of course that's if the error didn't kill the system in the first
place :-)

  OG.