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Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:53:00 +0100
From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Using underlying adX devices as well as ar0?
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--On 01 September 2011 07:45 -0500 Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> wrote:

>> Is it OK to run smartmontools / smartd / smartctl against the underlying
>>  adX devices, whilst ar0 is in use?
>
> Yes. :-)

Thanks :-) I'll look for other reasons why one of the machines mysteriously 
locked up with everything hung in 'ufs' [you can see why I asked now! :)]

-Karl