On 9 May 2019, Wols Lists said: > I suspect that if a read fails, the sector goes pending. If a "write > then verify" fails, the sector is re-allocated. And if the disk runs out > of space to re-allocate, it commits suicide. No: it just starts emitting write errors rather than covering them up by sparing sectors out. You have to go to SSDs before you find disks so cavalier with their data that they make it all vanish when they think they've worn out (indeed, in some cases, vanishing off the PCI bus entirely and forever). -- NULL && (void)
