Greg Sarsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been very happy with it so far, because of its weakness with
> badblock recovery.
he was a good marketing guy then ...
you know, the odds are high you'll never encounter a bad block on
modern hd. (and in factory; they check for them, and after , the hd
remap them with "free ones" at end of the disk).
the modern disk are a lot more mechanically safe (ie for head falling
on track) and i bet you'll have statically more destroyed disks than
disk with badblocks. There, smart is for you. there's some smart
packages in contrib.
i don't know xfs internals but i don't think it can recover from all
bad blocks. ie ext2fs has a map of them but if a sb or an
{inode,free_blocs}-map got a badblock, you'll get in trouble :-(
