Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] md/raid1: introduce a new sync action to repair badblocks

On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:44:38 +0800
Zheng Qixing <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are you referring to the case where we have logical 512B sectors but 
> physical 4K sectors?

At least that, yes. Such rewriting of bad blocks should happen at least at the
physical sector granularity.

But from my limited experience it feels like the badblock recovery algorithm
in hard drives, in addition to being opaque and proprietary, also highly
indeterministic and possibly buggy. In one case it would take REPEATEDLY
overwriting a full megabyte around a bad block to finally make the drive remap
it. (Maybe less than a megabyte would do, but overwriting only 4K - didn't).
Of course I understand such endeavors are outside of scope for mdraid, hence
it was just a side note.

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With respect,
Roman