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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:23:05AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Eitherway, I will argue that we need more real-world experience with
> diskcheckd before we decide anything.

My experience so far with diskcheckd is that is needs to be somewhat
more clever or off by default. Of -current machines we have:

	- on one it tried to scan my SCSI zip disk, which wasn't
	  ready. It also tried to scan some cd drives, but I think
	  that's been fixed.
	- on another it's scanning a vmware disk, which isn't
	  really that useful.
	- on another it started scanning a disk which we usually keep
	  spun-down to stop it from getting too hot.

I suspect it's also undesirable on laptops where you want to spin
down disks or where da0 is actually the first floppy drive (would
64k every second or so max out a floppy drive?).

Maybe there is some way it can avoid disks with removable media
or spun down disks?

	David.

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