[ILUG] puzzle of the day: RHEL has files seemingly undoing edits

[Lisa Muir]

On Feb 12, 2008 3:47 PM, Brendan Kehoe <brendan at zen.org> wrote:
> Many thanks for all the ideas!
>
> I spoke with him for a bit, and learned:
>
> - his logs show only:
>
>    Feb 12 14:16:17 localhost smartd[3375]: Device: /dev/sda, 194
> Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>    Feb 12 14:16:17 localhost smartd[3375]: Device: /dev/sda, 194
> Offline uncorrectable sectors
>

would this cause the file to get written to the disks on board cache
and it then fail to commit the data to the physical media? Or would
such a write operation cause a write error?

Lisa.