Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 12:32:44 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc diskcheckd.conf Message-ID: <200107061832.f66IWiU72636@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:25:26 %2B1000." <20010706152526.C506@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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>On 2001-Jul-06 06:30:36 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrot >e: >>diskcheckd is not designed or intended to do scrubbing, its goal has >>been reached if it does detection. > >The only problem is that soft errors won't be detected until they >become hard errors - which is too late for the data on the disk. If you are watching syslog output, the soft errors should be reported by the drive (at least SCSI drive) as sense information which is logged to the console. Sure, diskcheckd may not see them, but it will have served its purpose. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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