Re: EXT2 and BadBlock updating.....

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 10:25:40 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:35:05PM +0200, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
>
> What about a 'soft' bad blocks list? The filesystem could remember
> bad blocks in a seperate list, and can avoid this blocks if it has
> a choice, for example for new allocations.

It really has to be done via the bitmaps. Using a soft bad
block list to let e2fsck know what bits in the bitmap to avoid
would be possible, definitely.

> By the way, what's the state of ext3 with 2.3.* kernels? Are there
> any patches available?

No, I'm still doing functional development on the 2.2 tree.

--Stephen

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