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- From: pnarayan@cs.tamu.edu (P S Narayan)
- Subject: Disk bad block
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.191247.1253@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:12:47 GMT
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- Hello,
- Could any one tell me how does the file manager in the Unix File System
- detect a bad block and keep a track of it so that it is never allocated
- to any file. What is badness in a block ?
- I imagine the bad block list is kept in the zeroth block of the filesystem.
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- Regards
- Narayan
- pnarayan@cs.tamu.edu
- Texas A&M University
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