Hi Johannes, On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 18:24 +0100, Johannes Hirte wrote: > Am Mittwoch 06 Januar 2010 16:59:55 schrieb Steve Freitas: > > Thanks for your response. You're correct about the bad sector warning. > > So please correct me if I have some mistaken assumptions. I thought > > btrfs would be tolerant of that -- if a block failed the checksum test, > > it would reconstruct and remap it. > Only if enough redundancy is left. And with the default setup btrfs is only > mirroring the metadata not the data.
Okay. What capacity does btrfs have for reconstructing data, and how do I enable it (if any) for a new partition? I think I've confused checksums with magical ponies. > Bad sectors are only remapped by the drive on write time. As long as this > isn't the case, they are only marked as pending. As you have written, that > SMART detected many bad blocks, I suspect the FS is really damaged. And as > btrfsck is limited, I don't think it can fix this. Alright, I'll trash it and start over with a different drive. Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
