Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

[Onno Benschop]

On 20/08/08 06:43, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On 20/08/08 05:39, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Sayers
>> <andrew-ubuntu-devel at pileofstuff.org> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I think there's an elephant in this room - why are we running fsck at all?
>>>
>>> b) If it's to check for dying hardware[1], it can be disabled for all
>>> but the oldest hard drives[2], and even then is better replaced with a
>>> badblocks check run while booting continues
>>>     
>>>       
>> Define "oldest," please.  I actually think SMART (and a GUI to handle
>> it, if one doesn't exist) is rather important.  Bad Blocks may not
>> tell you much nowadays, but SMART can tell you when sectors have been
>> reallocated, hinting at a dying drive.  The disk I replaced in January
>> after SMART flagged it was 18 months old.
>>
>>   
>>     
> If you recall the google research about hard drive failures you will
> have remembered that SMART is no indication of impending failure.
>
>   
Link: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf

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