Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 06:30:36 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc diskcheckd.conf Message-ID: <12032.994393836@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jul 2001 14:53:24 PDT." <20010705215324.448BA3809@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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In message <20010705215324.448BA3809@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes : >For what its worth, I have yet to see a modern drive that does do scrubbing >of marginal data. Ie: a soft error (ecc correctable) does not cause >a writeback that I have ever seen. > >[...] > >I am not sure that the basic assumption behind diskcheckd is valid.. Is >there any way to verify for sure that marginal sector scrubbing really >happens on at least some drives? diskcheckd is not designed or intended to do scrubbing, its goal has been reached if it does detection. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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