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To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc diskcheckd.conf 
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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 12:32:44 -0600
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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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

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