From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
To: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux Software RAID a bit of a weakness?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:02:24 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E1F960.4090603@sauce.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702251504090.21918@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
Mark Hahn wrote:
> is it known what a long self-test does? for instance, ultimately you
> want the disk to be scrubbed over some fairly lengthy period of time.
> that is, not just read and checked, possibly with parity "fixed",
> but all blocks read and rewritten (with verify, I suppose!)
The smartctl man page is a little vague, but it looks like it does no
writing.
Paraphrasing somewhat:
short selftest - The "Self" tests check the electrical and
mechanical performance as well as the read performance of the disk.
long selftest - This is a longer and more thorough version of the
Short Self Test described above.
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-25 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-23 19:19 Linux Software RAID a bit of a weakness? Colin Simpson
2007-02-23 19:55 ` Steve Cousins
2007-02-23 20:08 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-02-25 12:24 ` Colin Simpson
2007-02-25 19:15 ` Richard Scobie
2007-02-25 20:08 ` Mark Hahn
2007-02-25 21:02 ` Richard Scobie [this message]
2007-02-26 16:56 ` David Rees
2007-02-26 17:26 ` Colin Simpson
2007-02-26 19:40 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2007-02-26 21:13 ` David Rees
2007-02-26 21:22 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-27 20:12 ` David Rees
2007-02-26 22:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-27 4:10 ` berk walker
2007-02-23 20:25 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-24 4:14 ` Richard Scobie
2007-02-25 20:08 ` Bill Davidsen
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