On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:37:34PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote: > >If you have a bad block in your swap partition and the device doesn't > >report an error about it, no amount of RAID is going to help you > >against it. > > The drive IS reporting read errors in most cases. "most cases" and "all cases" makes quite a difference. > And please, pretty PLEASE stop talking about those mysterious > "undetectable" or "unreported" errors here. A drive that develops > "unreported" errors just does not work and should not be here in > the first place, just like bad memory or CPU: if your cpu or memory > is failing, no software tricks helps and the failing part should > be replaced BEFORE even thinking about possible ways to recover. Indeed: any suspicious part should not be used in the recovery process. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
