Re: What are mdadm maintainers to do?

[Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>]

On 02/16/2015 12:48 PM, Chris wrote:
> 
> Thank you for the additional information, it calls for action.
> 
> 
> OK, calling for a solution to stop desktop drives from causing data loss and
> affecting the mdadm reputation:
> 
> 
> I gather that mdadm could ship with one additional udev rule that calls a
> script to check/set scterc, or falls back to increasing the system timout.
> 
> Phil, you mentioned having posted such a script, could you prepare it for
> addition to the mdadm package?

No, I've posted snippets for users to customize in their own rc.local or
distro equivalent.  I vaguely recall posting a generic script for some
common cases, but I've personally converted to raid-rated drives
everywhere in the past couple years.

Somebody else will have to tackle this.

> Would maintainers be ok with adding such a udev rule and script to the package?

Not my call, but keep in mind that this will add a dependency on
smartmontools or whatever means is used to access/write to scterc.

Phil