The 03.10.12 at 21:52, Greg Engel wrote:
So if I follow, there is a very real danger in using Reiserfs with an older drive that does not support the hardware bad sector control you are talking about.
Yes, I think so. It is not very dangerous, I think, but the danger is there. If it happens, the kernel get very slow while repeating the sector read I think ten times before giving up. If it is the root partition, then things get difficult, but it usually only means you loose one file. You need then to backup and reformat. If the sector is unrecoverable, then you need to use something different from reiserfs. Note that a bad sector, or a few, doesn't mean you have to replace the HD. Old units (10-30 Mega bytes) had a paper label listing bad sectors, hand written on the factory! -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson