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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:58:44 +0100 (CET)
From:      Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: bad sectors on disk and vinum/ccd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990312095529.9450A-100000@chippie.cgu>
In-Reply-To: <19990312113613.Q490@lemis.com>

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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

| Both vinum and ccd assume a "perfect" disk underneath them.  They use
| the standard disk drivers, and the wd driver supports bad144, so the
| answer should be yes.  But IDE drives have their own transparent bad
| sector handling, so a low-level format should do it transparently.

Ok, but there's already data on the disk so I don't want to do a low level
format - so I assume bad144 is enough...

| > (striping with vinum was btw much faster than ccd!)
| 
| That's interesting.  I haven't done any tests.

I did (with bonnie) - striping was twice as fast, but also ate twice the
processor time. (Doesn't matter that much...)

BTW: Can I define that a subdisk uses the whole disk, or the whole
available space (instead of just X megabytes?)

Thank you for your help,
Paul

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Paul Dekkers 
E-Mail: <P.Dekkers@cgu.nl>
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