From: adfas asd <chimera_god@yahoo.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: best practice when using removable drives and USB enclosure?
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:26:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <178301.65932.qm@web38805.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2267211f0910171209u1ec7987dq67405f4b3bb780c0@mail.gmail.com>
--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Tim Bostrom <tbostrom@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>You should be aware that using external disks
> through USB means that
> >>SMART tools can't monitor your disks for bad
> sectors and read errors,
> >>thus if any occur you won't know till you start
> getting I/O errors --
> >>it would be almost too late by then.
>
> Yes, this is a major sticking point. I am doing
> backups of this USB
> RAID1 array offline, but I'd like to get SMART
> status. Long term I
> see this going into an eSATA enclosure. Just need to
> find reasonable
> card supporting port multipliers and a good port
> multiplier.
If you use an advanced format like ZFS (ZFS-FUSE) or BTRFS you get checksumming, which should help.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-18 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-17 5:34 best practice when using removable drives and USB enclosure? Tim Bostrom
2009-10-17 8:34 ` Justin Piszcz
2009-10-17 9:42 ` Majed B.
2009-10-17 18:50 ` Richard Scobie
2009-10-17 19:09 ` Tim Bostrom
2009-10-18 12:26 ` adfas asd [this message]
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