From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 5 00:51:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B5716A419 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 00:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B1D13C428 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 00:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so1246971fka for ; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:50:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ItnuXjIo/QnPmU3fB0zk2EgijQwzMdoqO+d6jy8sAkkS+6LLlWNV3jL3YmPjDHlFht9Gq/Tp25CBcscWFgCdad5g+C1szRdEdfUDpHimJ4BPCT/HtL0sSuyjgmaZbV1Rva2r/hmFBbNE74cF3FhUzcOtnll5bC0zS1lXOMXf6xQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZxewQYmUBrEvFQgvsAKzL2TmVwgs/AkA6N06BeqYugFnlFTQpyPBGfhPSaDLGPwQFI4TAvwqb62a+nhxBpAeRnYzweD+RwXzr+LIvmtDjSDjBC6xzjCG50gQneMZHoVAabvaba7cM7C0h0vSebD0EC0PPuVzWUcVwww76bThuMY= Received: by 10.82.100.1 with SMTP id x1mr4720176bub.1186275059652; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 17:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 19:50:59 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Damian Vicino" In-Reply-To: <46B4E8D7.4060700@dc.uba.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46B4E8D7.4060700@dc.uba.ar> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Using Smart-Fail HD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:51:01 -0000 On 04/08/07, Damian Vicino 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. -- --