From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 18:52:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419111065671 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:52:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5BC8FC1E for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:52:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KuXCG-0003ZH-UP for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:52:13 +0000 Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz ([90.178.41.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:52:12 +0000 Received: from gamato by 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:52:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:52:01 +0100 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <4905951B.2050602@sh.cvut.cz> <20081027160828.GA24496@icarus.home.lan> <4905F8BB.3080302@sh.cvut.cz> <20081027175337.GA27175@icarus.home.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081009 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 In-Reply-To: <20081027175337.GA27175@icarus.home.lan> Sender: news Subject: Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:52:21 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>>> >>>> Now, does the timeout cause loss of any data? Is there anything besides >>>> disabling the testing that I can do about it? >>> Do you understand what short and long offline tests actually do and what >>> they're used for? :-) If so, you'd know that running them periodically >>> is more or less silly (IMHO). >> I do not, not completely :) I think I have just copied the settings from >> somewhere and only just tweaked it a bit whenever I have added a disk. > > Let me know if you figure out who or what online resource solicited > adding daily short/long tests, as I'd like to talk to them about their > decision. I have a feeling whoever thought it up felt that the tests > were performing entire sector scans of the entire disk, which is simply > not the case. > Hallo, Reading this thread I checked my config to find this: ;-) #/dev/ad0 -a -n standby,q -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../7/03) -m root # ++ 2006-11-03 mato /dev/ad0 -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../7/03) -m root # ++ 2006-11-03 mato I believe I came up with the settings after reading manual page / documentation of the tool. Regards, Martin