From: mper@uipsuxb.ps.uiuc.edu (Michael Pereckas) Subject: Re: Badblocks revisited (**sigh**) Date: 14 Jul 1992 03:53:17 GMT
hedrick@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) complains about badblock
>handling.
>When I was still using an MFM disk, Linux handled bad blocks on it
>just fine. Maybe the features have gone away?? At that time, there
>was an option to mkfs that would cause it to scan the disk, and put
>any badblocks into a file, which I believe was /.badblocks. That
>would prevent the blocks from later appears in real files or
Is it possible for the read-ahead code to read ahead into some bad
blocks?
Michael Pereckas