On Wed, 2 April 2008 16:17:25 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
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> [1] Well, it didn't die, really. Once I removed the file which was 
> showing I/O errors and did "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile", there are no 
> badblocks anymore - probably remapped.

Could have been soft errors.  Heaven knows how those devices report
uncorrectable errors, but claiming the block to be bad is a good guess.
Once blocks with uncorrectable errors are rewritten (the physical
blocks, not what the device reports), they are perfectly usable again.

Jörn

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