Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept?

[Stewart Smith]

On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 03:18  AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> IDE disks automatically remap defective sectors, so you won't see any
> of them unless the disk is already quite broken.

IIRC:
A drive that has trouble reading a sector will remap it. If the sector 
is dead and it can't read it at all, you're screwed and you don't get 
your data. This is why you still see 'unreadable sector' error messages 
from your drive.
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