On Sunday, July 18, 2021 09:37:53 AM David wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 at 21:08, <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Interesting -- not surprising, makes sense, but something (for me, at > > least) to keep in mind -- probably not a good idea to run on an old > > drive that hasn't been backed up. > > Sorry if my language was unclear. If you read the manpage context, it's > explaining that drives can be tested without taking them out of service. > So performance is only "degraded" while the test is running, compared > to normal operation, because the drive is also busy testing itself. > It doesn't mean permanent degradation.
Ahh, ok -- thanks for the clarification!
