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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:18:04 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Subject:   Re: A tool for remapping bad sectors in CURRENT?
Message-ID:  <86r5nhj01v.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <201003181234.10667.pieter@degoeje.nl> (Pieter de Goeje's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:34:10 %2B0100")
References:  <20100308102918.GA5485@localhost> <4BA20088.3050006@quip.cz> <86vdctkhpw.fsf@ds4.des.no> <201003181234.10667.pieter@degoeje.nl>

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Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > And if you're comfortable *writing* kernel code, I would suggest
> > implementing WORF in geom_mirror :)
> I am intrigued, what is this WORF you speak of?

Write On Read Failure.  It means that if you can't read a sector but you
have (or can recreate) a copy of the data that's supposed to be on it,
you rewrite that data to force the disk to reallocate the sector.  I've
done this manually several times (dd'ed a sector from the other disk in
a mirror).  I believe I even posted the procedure at some point; I'll
check my archive.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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