Re: EXT2 and BadBlock updating.....

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:23:20 +0100 (BST)

> Reading this thread, I see that many have a misconception. Bad blocks
> will not be found when someone tries to write to a bad sector! As

Actually on IDE and modern SCSI disks they will be. The drive does it for
you without you knowing. It also schedules its own I/O, it lies about
geometry and it does transparent block remapping.

Alan

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