>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> writes: Andreas> Yes, there is more chance that writing sector 7 (due to 4k Andreas> sector r-m-w) will cause collateral damage, but the truth even Andreas> today is that disks are not going to fail a single 512-byte Andreas> sector at one time, but more likely 64kB (or whatever the Andreas> remapping unit size is), so this isn't really introducing a new Andreas> failure mode. I keep hearing this disk drive "internal block size" of 32KB or 64KB being mentioned. And yet none of the drive firmware engineers I talk to on a regular basis have ever heard of such a thing... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
