Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:52:01 +0100 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts Message-ID: <ge52kh$uhv$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20081027175337.GA27175@icarus.home.lan> References: <4905951B.2050602@sh.cvut.cz> <20081027160828.GA24496@icarus.home.lan> <4905F8BB.3080302@sh.cvut.cz> <20081027175337.GA27175@icarus.home.lan>
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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
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