Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Now ask your clients what errors they see that could be fixed by a
> repair tool. I think Bruce's formulation is unfortunate, and would
> look better like this: When we find that there is a bug that causes
> data corruption we fix the bug rather than supplying a workaround. Our
> position is that repair tools are mostly a bandaid, and we would
> rather fix the problem.
From what Tom and some others have been saying, it sounds as though
there might be scope for a debugfs(8) sort of tool, to assist in
reconstructing hardware-damaged data. I agree that any kind of
fsck(8)-style automatic de-scragger is probably not what we want.
The abovementioned tool would still require someone fairly
knowledgeble about the on-disk data structures to drive it.
-Doug