Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:16:07 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? Message-ID: <20060821181520.Y83770@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <44E9482B.5030603@FreeBSD.org> References: <20060820205518.4C78E45042@ptavv.es.net> <44E9482B.5030603@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Doug Barton wrote: DB> > There have been some excellent suggestions in this thread, but one simple DB> > detail looks like it's been over-looked. DB> > DB> > If the disk has marked the sector as bad, which it should have, and it DB> > there are redirection sectors available. a reboot is all that is DB> > required. DB> DB> Not so much overlooked as ignored, methinks. :) If we wanted to reboot all DB> the time, we would run windows. Well, swapoff/swapon pair should do the trick avoiding reboot, unless swapoff deadlocked. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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