On Saturday 25 November 2006 20:37, Faraz Shahbazker wrote:
Yes and No. If you're IDE device is doing the internal re-mapping thingy, badblocks will be none the wiser. If you're getting
agreed but the remapping is inplace for a reason. we needn't worry about badblocks until the disk runs out of reserve blocks. till that time, it would be ok.
one more thing he can do is use SMART. I think hdparm has some switch to check the disk health using SMART but its currently available for IDE disks only I dunno about SCSI or SATA ones.
Bottomline: a regular constant set of badblocks is not a problem. But if you frequently get random and senseless filesystem inconsistencies, then you're in trouble inspite of a clean chit from badblocks.
Yes, and backups are absolutely necessary to prevent disasters! :(