Re: XFS bad block recording?

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:04:25AM -0600, Michael Best wrote:

> Basically even with ext2/ext3, with the drive failing spectacularly,
> it's pretty much game over for that drive.

For gradual failures or "bad blocks in stasis" it would be nice to
have the fs avoid these.

> EVMS and LVM may have addressed this issue where the LVM/EVMS layer
> is actually handling the physical disks and can reallocate bad
> blocks on the fly.

Arguably, you shouldn't need to use LVM to deal with bad blocks.

Anyhow, this is getting rather OT.  If XFS cannot deal with bad-blocks
(I'm not talking about failing drives), then that is that and other
means are required.



  --cw