From: Robin Bowes <robin-lists@robinbowes.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Best way to achieve large, expandable, cheap storage?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:08:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <djbhsc$bl1$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43591BC4.7090903@fooplanet.com>
Gil said the following on 21/10/2005 17:48:
> The partial media failure problem described here is exactly why it's
> important to run smartmontools in combination with your RAID array
> of any level. By running regular checks of the disk surface you can
> know well ahead of time that you're going to have trouble. in
> practice this more than mitigates the risk of partial media failure.
>
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
<sigh> I wish the code to enable SMART for SATA drives would make it
into mainstream *real* soon now.
R.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-21 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-30 13:20 Best way to achieve large, expandable, cheap storage? Robin Bowes
2005-09-30 13:29 ` Robin Bowes
2005-09-30 18:28 ` Brad Dameron
2005-09-30 19:20 ` Dan Stromberg
2005-09-30 18:16 ` Gregory Seidman
2005-09-30 18:34 ` Andy Smith
2005-10-02 4:36 ` Christopher Smith
2005-10-02 7:09 ` Tyler
2005-10-03 3:19 ` Christopher Smith
2005-10-03 16:33 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-10-04 4:09 ` Christopher Smith
2005-10-20 10:23 ` Robin Bowes
2005-10-20 11:19 ` Gregory Seidman
2005-10-20 11:41 ` Robin Bowes
2005-10-21 4:42 ` Christopher Smith
2005-10-21 16:48 ` Gil
2005-10-21 20:08 ` Robin Bowes [this message]
2005-10-21 4:40 ` Christopher Smith
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2005-10-27 19:12 Andrew Burgess
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