From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 14:17:00 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 2FFF916A4E9; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75E743DD2; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7LEG7Vw088379; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:16:07 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:16:07 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <44E9482B.5030603@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <20060821181520.Y83770@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20060820205518.4C78E45042@ptavv.es.net> <44E9482B.5030603@FreeBSD.org> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:16:07 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Daniel Eriksson 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 14:17:00 -0000 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 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------