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On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:09 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 06:52:10 AM Mick wrote: |
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>> What triggers a relocation? I also have a drive which shows a sector |
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>> relocation pending, but for a few days now and after some tests that showed |
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>> no errors, it won't relocate it. |
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> I think a write to that sector should force a relocation. |
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In theory either a write to that sector or a successful read should |
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trigger a relocation. |
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In practice, I've never seen a drive actually do this - maybe I just |
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manage to pick drives with braindead firmware. When I write to a |
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pending sector, the pending sector count goes down, but the relocated |
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sector count doesn't change, and usually in a few days I have another |
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pending sector. |
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The last time I had a drive fail I was running md raid, so a scrub |
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fixed all the pending sectors automatically, but the drive firmware |
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wasn't doing its part to relocate them. Either that, or the drive had |
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run out of spare sectors and wasn't reporting this via SMART. |
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Rich |
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