Re: FC4 kernel performance

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:46:14AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Most things consider a bad sector a sign of a bad drive.  On today's
> drives, where bad sectors are remapped internally to the drive, by the
> time you see a bad sector, the drive has remapped a bunch of sectors
> (and may be out of spare space).

Bad sector on write yes - that generally means its time to throw the drive
away, on read its not neccessarily so bad. Thats one reaosn e2fsck will
rewrite inode and other critical blocks that won't read as part of the
recovery