On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:32:03PM -0500, Ed Carp wrote:
> It must be nice to live in such a perfect world where one can replace disks
> instantly at the first sign of a problem. Why have such badblock code in the
> kernel in the first place -- just insist that all your users have error-free
> drives.
We demand the same from memory.
> But out here in the real world we don't have such a luxury. It could be days
> before a drive can get replaced. In the meantime, we have to make do.
It would bloat the kernel with uncertain success - so if this is desired at
all, do it in userspace somehow.
Regards,
bert hubert..
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