From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263303AbTJUUCW (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:02:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263304AbTJUUCW (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:02:22 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:47494 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263303AbTJUUCU (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:02:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:05:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Chuck Campbell cc: Norman Diamond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in In-Reply-To: <20031021193128.GA18618@helium.inexs.com> Message-ID: References: <175701c397e6$b36e5310$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031021193128.GA18618@helium.inexs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Chuck Campbell wrote: > 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 I thought both ext2 and ext3 do handle bad-blocks. They just don't make them owned by a "file" because the Unix file-systems don't require dummy directory entries. If the respondent wants them isolated into a "BADBLOCKS" file, he can make a utility to do that. It's really quite easy because you can raw-read disks under Linux, plus there is already the `badblocks` program that will locate them. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.