Helmut Jarausch writes:
> On 10 Jun, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > You could either first use mkfs for ext3 or 4 to check, or you could
> > run "badblock" manually over the partition first to check.
>
> Thanks, Joost,
>
> but I don't know how to feed the output of badblocks to mkbtrfs.
> It looks as if btrfs cannot use a bad block list. Is that true?
Isn't this obsolete nowadays? SMART capable drives should remap bad
sectors automatically and replace them by spare sectors. Running badblocks
-n might be necessary though in order to make the drive acess every block.
So I would not trust a drive any more that actually still shows bad
blocks.
Wonko
