xfs i/O error

Michael Monnerie michael.monnerie at is.it-management.at
Fri Jul 31 04:08:22 CDT 2009


On Freitag 31 Juli 2009 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Read errors can be somewhat recoverable, if you write to that sector
> it will remap if it can.

Yes, but I've never seen a disk who did not get other broken sectors 
later. When a disk starts to get bad sectors, others will come, just 
like a virus. Therefore: you get a bad sector -> replace disk. That's by 
far less pain and cheaper than the other scenario.

mfg zmi
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