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Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Posted Jan 23, 2009 23:58 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online) by dlang
Parent article: Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

If the OS sees a bad block on a drive *after a write* the drive should be
replaced. If it's just a read, then the drive hasn't had a chance to do
any bad block remapping yet, so nothing unexpected is going on.

(Using RAID will let you do that rewrite without losing the data that was
in the sector that went bad.)


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Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Posted Jan 24, 2009 1:08 UTC (Sat) by EzDi (guest, #56297) [Link]

Exactly, I've had this problem with several drives where I get a bad sector somewhere, often underneath swap, a journal, or some other file system bit, because that's what's being dealt with before the incident that caused it.

Drives often don't remap UNTIL YOU DO A WRITE. So I keep getting errors while trying to mount, fsck, or when doing something to an adjacent sector, until I manually zero out that sector. Then my hard drive is perfect again from the OS's viewpoint.

Of course using bad block lists can often not do the right thing, because they only do a read test...

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