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- From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
- Subject: Re: Bad block mapper?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.202650.1404@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
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- References: <37150@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <1992Aug25.153604.13224@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <37231@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 20:26:50 GMT
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- In article <37231@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:
- >>The drawback here is that you can't optimize a disk
- >>using this kind of protection (but it beats not using it at all, eh?).
- >
- >Is this an absolute? Or are you saying all current software chokes
- >when it sees an immutable block?
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- I'd never make that sweeping a statement, but QBTools for one cannot defrag
- a disk that it has marked bad blocks on (in my experience).
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