From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 23 13:11:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD4737B401 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7NKB6I98330; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:11:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:11:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diskcheckd is poo In-Reply-To: <200108232007.f7NK7F393829@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems David O'Brien wrote: > > diskcheckd is very annoying. Many doubt its usefulness in detecting > > errors before it is too late. It thinks 40% of my disks are bad (which > > I don't). I've turned it off, I know many that have. > > > > I would like to remove it from the base system and put it in ports. I > > really don't see what justifies keeping it in /usr/src. > > YES! Interesting. I tend to agree. However, the one system I would find it useful for is a system where the 2nd IDE master goes to sleep and has to be periodically touched to keep awake. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message