Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:00:10PM -0700, RL wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does ZFS flag blocks as bad so it knows to avoid using them in the future?
>
> No it doesn't. This would be a really nice feature to have, but
> currently when ZFS tries to write to a bad sector it simply tries few
> times and gives up. With COW model this shouldn't be very hard to try to
> use another block and mark this one as bad, but it's not yet
> implemented.
Bad block handling was needed before 1985, when the hardware did not support
to map bad block. Even at that time, it was done in the disk dricer and not in
the filesystem (except for FAT).
Jörg
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