From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 24 23:56: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D29BC37B403; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7P6tcT32129; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:55:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diskcheckd is poo In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:12:13 CDT." <20010824181213.I5230@leviathan.inethouston.net> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:55:38 +0200 Message-ID: <32127.998722538@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <20010824181213.I5230@leviathan.inethouston.net>, "David W. Chapman Jr." writes: >On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:14:24PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> >> 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). >> >I have the shar of the port up at >http://people.freebsd.org:~/dwcjr/diskcheckd.shar I believe. its >already in the ports, I'm just awaiting a repo copy of the files from >/usr/src/usr.sbin/diskcheckd into ports/sysutils/diskcheckd/files There are very good reason why serious disk systems like NetApp and IBM's boxes have a scrubber, and these reasons extend fully into machines with a 60GB disk which is only marginally accessed. I think diskcheckd should stay in the main system, but be turned off by default (at least until better heuristics for default operation has been devised.) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message