On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If SMART (or something conceptually similar) detects that a drive
> > might be failing and be beyond the range of the drive's ability to
> > cope, it could raise an event and move the blocks used to ano
* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If SMART (or something conceptually similar) detects that a drive might
> be failing and be beyond the range of the drive's ability to cope, it
> could raise an event and move the blocks used to another disk.
And it even would get funnier if the driv
On Monday 24 March 2008, Eric Martin wrote:
> > Just a thought, maybe you know some aspect of disks that I don't
> > and can see where this would be useful. From where I sit, I can;t
> > see any such use-case.
> >
> >
>
> While I see what Alan is saying, I'm pretty sure LVM does it. Device
> Dri
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
does anyone know an (virtual) block device which can do automatic
defect management (if the underlying disks have badblocks) ?
My idea goes like this:
* one or more devices are assigned to one block device
* a bunch of spare
On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> does anyone know an (virtual) block device which can do automatic
> defect management (if the underlying disks have badblocks) ?
>
> My idea goes like this:
> * one or more devices are assigned to one block device
> * a bunch of spare
Hi folks,
does anyone know an (virtual) block device which can do automatic
defect management (if the underlying disks have badblocks) ?
My idea goes like this:
* one or more devices are assigned to one block device
* a bunch of spare blocks are reserved for defect management
(so the device
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