Re: Blockbusting news, results are in

[Hans Reiser]

Mudama, Eric wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hans Reiser [mailto:reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 2:25 AM
> > To: Norman Diamond
> > Cc: Mudama, Eric; 'Wes Janzen '; 'Rogier Wolff '; 'John Bradford ';
> > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; nikita@xxxxxxxxxxx; 'Pavel Machek ';
> > 'Justin Cormack '; 'Russell King '; 'Vitaly Fertman '; 
> > 'Krzysztof Halasa
> > '
> > Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in
> >
> >
> > Norman Diamond wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > What would you like "us disk makers" to say?
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > How to force reallocations even when data are lost, 
> > >
> > >      
> > buy Maxtor and write to them, thereby triggering the remap.
> >    
>
> It isn't necessarilly that simple. ]
Can you explain? 

> However, if the drive is still alive, it
> has written your data to a place where it can get at it again.  
>
>
>  


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Hans


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