[sclug] Better than RAID?

[Alex Butcher]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Derek M Jones wrote:

> The functionality that caught my eye was:
>
>   o Bad Block Relocation

ATA and SCSI discs (attempt to) do this in their on-board firmware, whenever
a bad block is written to.

I've successfully repaired failed filesystems by finding the file(s) that
occupies the bad block, removing it, then filling the filesystem with a
dummy file to force a write to all unallocated blocks.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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