kernelnewbies.org reports such feature for 3.1 kernel 1.9. Software RAID: Bad block management The MD layer (aka "Multiple Devices", aka software raid) has gained bad block management support: bad blocks will be added to a list, and the system will try not to use them. This feature requires an updated mdadm version. Which mdadm supports that? -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ -- 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