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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:26:01 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Help! I got a bad block....
Message-ID:  <199511220326.DAA24614@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199511220207.SAA07656@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 21, 95 06:07:33 pm

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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

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