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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: Disk bad block
- Message-ID: <pc7dqc0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 02:14:12 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.191247.1253@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In <1992Sep2.191247.1253@tamsun.tamu.edu> pnarayan@cs.tamu.edu (P S Narayan) writes:
- | 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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- You need to be far more specific, as to what unix version, and what
- kind of disks you are referring to; there is tremendous variation.
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