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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, jim owens <jowens@hp.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some very basic questions
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:27:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022142759.ac33a16c.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48FE11F9.7040700@gmail.com>

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:31:37 -0400
Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]
> If you have remapped a big chunk of the sectors (say more than 10%), you 
> should grab the data off the disk asap and replace it. Worry less about 
> errors during read, writes indicate more serious errors.

Ok, now for the bad news: money is invented.
If you replace a disk before real failure you won't get replacement from the
manufacturer. That may sound irrelevant to someone handling 5 disks, but is
significant if handling 500 or more. The replacement rate is indeed much
higher than people think from their home pcs.

> [...]
> ric

-- 
Regards,
Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 11:23 Some very basic questions Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-21 12:13 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 14:22   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-21 15:34     ` jim owens
2008-10-22 11:36       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-22 12:15         ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 13:03           ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 13:13             ` Chris Mason
2008-10-22 13:16             ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-21 13:20 ` jim owens
2008-10-21 17:01   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-21 17:15     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-21 17:31       ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 12:27         ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2008-10-22 13:15           ` Chris Mason
2008-10-22 13:27             ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 14:32               ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 14:36                 ` Chris Mason
2008-10-22 14:40                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 14:46                 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 14:54                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 15:02                     ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 15:13                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 15:25                         ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 15:33                           ` Chris Mason
2008-10-22 15:43                             ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 15:54                               ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 18:28                                 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 15:39                           ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 13:52             ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-22 15:56               ` Michel Salim
2008-10-22 16:56                 ` jim owens
2008-10-23  9:47                 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-22 11:40       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-21 13:59 ` Chris Mason
2008-10-21 16:09   ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 11:43     ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-21 16:27   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-21 16:59     ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 11:46       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-21 17:49     ` Chris Mason
2008-10-22 12:19       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-22 12:48         ` Jeff Schroeder
2008-10-22 14:02           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2008-10-22 13:50         ` Chris Mason
2008-10-22 14:04           ` Matthias Wächter
2008-10-22 14:32             ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 14:44               ` jim owens
2008-10-24  8:42           ` Chris Samuel
2008-10-24  8:39         ` Chris Samuel
2008-10-21 20:54   ` Eric Anopolsky
2008-10-21 22:18     ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22  2:29       ` Eric Anopolsky
2008-10-22 10:42         ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 10:53           ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-22 12:57             ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 12:57             ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 13:15               ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-22 13:19                 ` Chris Mason
2008-10-22 13:38                   ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 13:59                     ` Chris Mason
2008-10-22 14:23                       ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 13:23                 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 16:14                   ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-22 16:34                     ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-23  3:59                       ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-22 18:32                     ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 19:13                       ` jim owens
2008-10-22 19:22                         ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 19:59                       ` Ric Wheeler
2008-10-22 21:31                     ` Eric Anopolsky
2008-10-22 21:56                       ` Ric Wheeler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-21 17:37 calin
2008-10-21 20:08 ` jim owens
2008-10-22  7:15   ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 14:13     ` jim owens
2008-10-22 14:25       ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-22 14:35 dbz
2008-10-27 15:43 ` Stephan von Krawczynski

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