From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 00:39:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D29DB16A4E0; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C77943D58; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:39:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7L0dbq4031711 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:09:37 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Antony Mawer Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:09:36 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <44E77EF7.6070004@ngo.org.uk> <200608201922.26864.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <44E8FC8F.3010801@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <44E8FC8F.3010801@mawer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5378386.KqkvS3dgya"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200608211009.37626.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.36 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Doug Barton , Nik Clayton , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:39:40 -0000 --nextPart5378386.KqkvS3dgya Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 21 August 2006 09:51, Antony Mawer wrote: > I brought this up on -stable the other day... see the thread titled "The > need for initialising disks before use?" (17/08/06). Knew it was somewhere recent :) > I've seen numerously "young" disks showing up plenty of read errors > (which smartctl seems to confirm are coming from the disk, and not > driver etc related), and would love to see some way to easily "fix" the > problem... these are all < 6mth old SATA drives... Ouch.. Time to switch drive maker. > Unfortunately dd'ing parts of an existing filesystem are a little more > complicated than when dealing with a swap partition :-( Yeah, you can do it but it is more complicated. There was a patch floating around for fsdb which showed what file a particu= lar=20 block was associated with. I'm not sure if it ever got merged though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5378386.KqkvS3dgya Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6QDJ5ZPcIHs/zowRAmiGAKCTZde+5bqo64KP6PyNMKpV6tsfvACfTyOH gnw4nC7pjRIqqj0s6mPmBiE= =g1g6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5378386.KqkvS3dgya--