Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:22:50 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Vaclav Haisman <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts Message-ID: <1225142570.1052.3.camel@RabbitsDen> 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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On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:53 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:22:03PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: <skipped> > > > 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. While I am not the OP, one such place would be example configuration file in 'man smartd.conf'. HTH, -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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