> And I think there's a problem with drives that, upon sensing the > unreadable sector, assign an alternate even though the sector is fine, and > you eventually run out of spares.
You are assuming drives can't tell the difference between stray data loss and sectors that can't be recovered by rewriting and reuse. I was under the impression modern drives could do this ? Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/