From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 19:28:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA23167 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:28:15 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA23162 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:28:12 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA24614; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:26:01 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511220326.DAA24614@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Help! I got a bad block.... To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:26:01 +0000 () Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199511220207.SAA07656@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 21, 95 06:07:33 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 885 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > > No in fsck it attempts to write nulls to the inode > which requires it to read the block first, > null out the inode, and write it back..... > the read is failing.. With ARRE enabled, the block should be forwarded on read as well. If it's not, I'm not sure where you'd stand. (Is there a "forwarded block, may be corrupt" case with SCSI drives that might be causing the read command to still fail, even though the block has been relocated? > > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[