On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 06:17:24PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Quite likely, in that case the drive has exhausted its spare pool, and
> there are a bunch of bad sectors that have already been reallocated. Some
> drives will reallocate sectors if they are still readable but the sector
> appears to be marginal.
I agree that this is the theory. In practise however, I've never
seen it work correctly. We've seen several disks with say 1-5 bad
blocks and nothing else, and "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<disk>" doesn't
seem to cure them.
I know how to check SMART, and I can see that some of these disks
have NEVER reallocated a block. Stuff like that.
Roger.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rogier Wolff" <[email protected]>
> Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel
> To: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors.
>
>
> >On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:46:32PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> >>> a filesystem: if we recover one block this way, the next block will be
> >>> errorred and the filesystem "crashes" anyway. In fact this behaviour
> >>> may masquerade the first warnings that something is going wrong....
> >>
> >>If the block gets successfully read after 2 or 3 tries, it might be a
> >>good idea for the kernel to automatically do a forced rewrite of the
> >>block, which should cause the disk to do its own disk block
> >>sparing/reassignment.
> >
> >Hi Ted,
> >
> >I agree that this is the theory. In practise however, I've never
> >seen it work correctly. We've seen several disks with say 1-5 bad
> >blocks and nothing else, and "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<disk>" doesn't
> >seem to cure them.
> >
> >Roger.
> >
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