On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 12:31 +0300, Majed B. wrote: > I have a question which would probably sound stupid: If I have a bad > blocks output file from dd_rescue, can I reconstruct a bad sector's > data by reading the same sector from all disks (using dd if=/dev/sdx > of=./bbfix_#number bs=512 count=1 skip=bb_number-1), then run an > normal XOR operation, write zeros to the bad block to force sector > remap, then dd the XOR output to the said sector? Well, of course. Assuming that the disk's sector remap works, which was my problem, and that we're talking about RAID5. -- 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
