linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] ext4: Shut down block groups when damage is detected

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Message-ID: <20130731212813.GB8622@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:28:13 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] ext4: Shut down block groups when damage is
 detected

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 08:52:43PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Well, before spending too much time with this, try finding some study
> (I've read some from Google I think, just I don't have the url at hand) on
> what is the estimated lifetime of a disk after bad sectors start appearing. 

Also worth considering is that error rate profile for flash devices
might be quite different from HDD's.

					- Ted
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