From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wols Lists Subject: Re: recovering failed raid5 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:31:22 +0000 Message-ID: <581771DA.9030108@youngman.org.uk> References: <20161027160400.GA21042@metamorpher.de> <715b259f-1e56-9606-edc4-3e5c4d57744b@shenkin.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <715b259f-1e56-9606-edc4-3e5c4d57744b@shenkin.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Shenkin , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andreas Klauer , rm@romanrm.net, robin@robinhill.me.uk List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 28/10/16 13:22, Alexander Shenkin wrote: >> But... why? Why disable smart? And if you do, is it a surprise that you >> only notice disk failures when it's already too late? > > yeah, i asked myself that same question. there was probably some reason > I did, but i don't remember what it was. i'll keep smart enabled from > now on... I bet he didn't disable smarts - bear in mind I also have two 3TB Barracudas ... and they lose their settings at power-off/on. If he didn't set the boot process to explicitly turn smart on, EVERY BOOT, then by default it's off. Cheers, Wol