How do you know those disks don't retry on write failiure? How do you
know they aren't retrying and failing?
> How do _you_ know that? What makes _you_ argue for what _I_ think is
> useful and _my_ sense of security? You are on thin ice ...
Linux is an open source operating system, you are welcome to add the
feature if you want it.
> > We have moved on since the 1980s, and I believe that it is now up to
> > the drive firmware, or the block device driver to do this, it has no
> > place in a filesystem.
>
> Interestingly I owned one of those 30 MB MFM Seagate howling drives
> back in the 80s. I had no errors on it until I threw it away for its
> unbelievable noise rate. Today I throw away one (very low-noise)
> disk about every week for shooting yet another fs somewhere near
> midnight.
> Indeed we moved on, only the direction looks sometimes questionable ...
Ask the disk manufacturers for advice.
John.
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