Re: bad144 - how useful still? Because it's annoyingly ubiquitous.

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On May 31, 2026, at 12:25 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I was thinking about that.  But having to create new filesystems is a
> little different from having to do a full format in ignorance of which blocks
> were already marked as bad.

It also probably wasn’t very common to do this kind of cross-platform device-swapping back then.  And I suspect that people who did it were perfectly OK with “welp, gotta low-level format!”.

(Actual grey-beards, please chime in!)

-- thorpej