From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 24 16: 9:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D5F37B40A for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7ONEOn06169 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108242314.f7ONEOn06169@mass.dis.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskcheckd is poo In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:03:41 PDT." <20010823130341.A3190@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:14:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 If we want a surface scrubber, we ought to have a "real" one; it's also very, very bad in the laptop context (since it keeps waking your disks up). If we're going to keep it, it should be turned off by default at any rate. > 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. > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message