From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Turmel Subject: Re: What are mdadm maintainers to do? Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:44:11 -0500 Message-ID: <54E2488B.5060903@turmel.org> References: <20150216142845.0d50207c@notabene.brown> <54E1EDEA.1030503@turmel.org> <54E226B5.1080500@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 02/16/2015 12:48 PM, Chris wrote: > > Thank you for the additional information, it calls for action. > > > OK, calling for a solution to stop desktop drives from causing data loss and > affecting the mdadm reputation: > > > I gather that mdadm could ship with one additional udev rule that calls a > script to check/set scterc, or falls back to increasing the system timout. > > Phil, you mentioned having posted such a script, could you prepare it for > addition to the mdadm package? No, I've posted snippets for users to customize in their own rc.local or distro equivalent. I vaguely recall posting a generic script for some common cases, but I've personally converted to raid-rated drives everywhere in the past couple years. Somebody else will have to tackle this. > Would maintainers be ok with adding such a udev rule and script to the package? Not my call, but keep in mind that this will add a dependency on smartmontools or whatever means is used to access/write to scterc. Phil