DBMS_REPAIR package usage

To all,

I have a datafile in my production box (a user data tablespace), when I run dbv against it, it showed that 5 blocks are "influxed"

Page 458784 is influx - most likely media corrupt ***
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x24070020 file=0. blocknum=458784. Fractured block found during dbv:
Data in bad block - type:0. format:0. rdba:0x00000000 last change scn:0x0000.00000000 seq:0x0 flg:0x00 consistancy value in tail 0x0003c204
check value in block header: 0x0, check value not calculated spare1:0x0, spare2:0x0, spare2:0x0

We can copy this file to tape, dd this file. On the OS disk level, the OS does not treat this as corrupted. But it is corrupted on the oracle
(software) level.

I've checked and can't find any object associate with these 5 corrupted blcok.

That means that there is no data inside those blocks.

Since the tablespace is about 12 GB on a highly active system (which only got 3 hours maintance window each month), export/import (then drop the tablespace)
which Oracle support suggested is mostly out of the question. (Especially, it is very hard for me to convince the sysadmin that the blocks are corrupted
as they don't see any I/O error associate with this file and the developers don't see any problem with the application either!)

I am currently thinking about upgrading this database to 8.1.6 to make use of the DBMS_REPAIR package to make those blocks as "unusable". But I am not sure that if the DBMS_REPAIR package can run against the blocks which do not belong to any objects!! Can someone give me some guidences?

thanks

Winnie

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