[Fwd: Power Down]

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Dec 9 06:02:40 EST 1999


rcanup at go2fax.com said:
>  You can identify a bad sector - the question is what do you do about
> it? 

Use a journalling filesystem. Make sure that any sector that's being written 
is disposable - if it gets wiped, then you can just do without it. Only remove 
your old copy of the filesystem data thats in that sector when you have a 100% 
guarantee that your write has hit the media correctly.



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