From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Bowes Subject: Re: Best way to achieve large, expandable, cheap storage? Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:08:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <433F63BB.3020008@nighthawkrad.net> <7f55de720510030933k26608cfsda63326a8438e35d@mail.gmail.com> <43420091.9060601@nighthawkrad.net> <43577022.5010306@robinbowes.com> <20051020111943.GA9757@anthropohedron.net> <435871A4.8040304@nighthawkrad.net> <43591BC4.7090903@fooplanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43591BC4.7090903@fooplanet.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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/ I wish the code to enable SMART for SATA drives would make it into mainstream *real* soon now. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?