On 10/22/2008 3:50 PM, Chris Mason wrote: > Let me reword my answer ;). The next write will always succeed unless > the drive is out of remapping sectors. If the drive is out, it is only > good for reads and holding down paper on your desk.
I have a fairly new SATA disk with about 3000 hours of 24/7 duty (very light load), 0 remapped sectors and 8 consecutive sectors with read/write errors. Still, it did not perform remapping facing heavy writes on the bad sectors. Now what? For whatever reason, remapping not always works (or mine was produced with a total of zero remapping sectors…). - Matthias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html