Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 19:50:59 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Damian Vicino" <dvicino@dc.uba.ar> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using Smart-Fail HD Message-ID: <d7195cff0708041750v199586cbv3e4d44294ae016db@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46B4E8D7.4060700@dc.uba.ar> References: <46B4E8D7.4060700@dc.uba.ar>
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On 04/08/07, Damian Vicino <dvicino@dc.uba.ar> wrote: > Hello. > Im Having FBSD running in a P3 with 4.3GB HD, and got 2 extra 80GBs HD > that fails the SMART check. > I did a full HD scan with tools provided by the HD's developers and over > 90% of the HDs are safe. > I want to use those HD for home of the lowrank users, and keep the > critical data in the 4GB HD. > Do u know any pretty safe FS for this kind of unstable hardware, i was > thinking in something with software RAID maybe. > Thanks for any suggestion, im pretty new on FBSD world (and > english-speak world too). > BTW, if the solution can be applied to DFBSD, it will be very nice, > becouse i got another machine P1 runnning it, and all HDs i can get for > it use to have a lot of failures already. It, more or less, depends on the errors. I think, though, that I would use some sort of mirroring, gmirror for FreeBSD. That way, if you lose a drive you can at least fall down somewhat gracefully rather than a panic and no more data. -- --
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