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On Monday 24 March 2008, Eric Martin wrote: |
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> > Just a thought, maybe you know some aspect of disks that I don't |
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> > and can see where this would be useful. From where I sit, I can;t |
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> > see any such use-case. |
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> While I see what Alan is saying, I'm pretty sure LVM does it. Device |
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> Drivers -> Multiple Devices Driver Support -> Bad Block Relocation |
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> Device Target. I've never played with it but I assume there's a lot |
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> of good reading on it. |
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Which gives me an idea on where such a thing might be useful - RAID |
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If SMART (or something conceptually similar) detects that a drive might |
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be failing and be beyond the range of the drive's ability to cope, it |
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could raise an event and move the blocks used to another disk. This |
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could give another level of data protection rather than just simply |
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relying on multiple copies as current RAID schemes mostly do |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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