Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A plea for bad block handling in the file system.
Message-ID: <2009@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 14:05:38 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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There's nothing that can be done about the reliability problems caused by
the lack of firewalls between sectors, but I'd just like to make another
plea for bad block handling in the filesystem.

That's where it belongs: not duplicated dozens of times in dozens of drivers.
Not only does this cut down on duplicated code, but it's also better because
the filesystem has more information about what that bad block *means*. For
example: a write error on a data block in a file or a file header block
should not be fatal: the FS should be able to move the block elsewhere. In
fact about the only write error that can't be recovered would be one in the
root directory, and even then workarounds can be made.
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