On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Ronan KERYELL wrote:
> Third, what about bad blocks on disk? How to skip them in a raw partition
> if you do not have state-of-the-art disks that do block remapping for you
> in your back-yard (such as SCSI)? Often FS do these tricks for you on
> IDE disks for example.

These days IDE does that too.
But if there are too many of them, you loose (same for SCSI).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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