Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> writes:

> No, it can't. It doesn't know which blocks are reassigned together with
> the one you specified... only the disk knows. (Lots of disks only reassign
> groups of blocks, not single ones.!)

Ah.  This makes much sense.  Thanks!

-tih
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