Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:07:43 +0200 From: Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: badsect(8) is gone -- what now? Message-ID: <20180727130743.GB45967@fuz.su>
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Good evening, I recently tried to use badsect(8) to salvage a slightly broken disk with some janky sectors which the drive doesn't remap but still likes to complain about, just to find out that kernel support for badsect(8) is no longer available in FreeBSD 11.2. This is an annoying situation as I have no way to stop these sectors from being used otherwise. Is there any way the kernel interface for badsect(8) or a utilitiy fulfilling a similar purpose is going to come back? I understand that kernel support was removed due to possible misuse of mknod(S_IFMT) leading to crashes [1], but there really ought to be some way to mark a sector as bad if the disk doesn't want to do it for you. Yours, Robert Clausecker [1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/svn-src-all@freebsd.org/msg151790.html -- () ascii ribbon campaign - for an 8-bit clean world /\ - against html email - against proprietary attachments
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