A tool for remapping bad sectors in CURRENT?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Mar 11 15:21:15 UTC 2010


Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> writes:
> Yes, rewriting by dd or any other way works for reallocating or
> clearing pending sectors counter, but in server environment

In a server environment, you'd be a fool not to have some sort of
redundancy set up.

> I need to know the affected file, as it can be for example database
> file and then it is a big problem! Rewriting the sector inside InnoDB
> ib_data file can cause DB crash, data loss etc.

How is that different from *not* rewriting the sector?  If there's a bad
sector somewhere in your data, your database is still going to crash.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


More information about the freebsd-current mailing list