badsect

[Ron Stanonik]

Why doesn't badsect create a regular file containing
the bad block, rather than create an illegal file
(mode = IFMT) leaving its conversion to a regular
file up to fsck?

Having badsect'ed a block, should dump continue to
complain about it?  I'd expect so, because the bad
block is contained in a regular file, but recently
we badsect'ed a couple of blocks and, oddly, dump
only complains about one of them.  (They are in the
BAD directory, and they are not in the same frag.)
If dump shouldn't complain, how are the regular files
resulting from badsect/fsck distinquished from regular
files which should be dumped?

Oh, we're running 4.2bsd.

Thanks,

Ron Stanonik
stanonik at nprdc.arpa