also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.23.1656 +0200]:
> > Yes, it will. Obviously, use of a drive will more likely cause
> > errors, but as long as SMART does not report any, the drive is ready
> > to go. Also, SMART can run low-level tests itself.
>
> Does this mean that if a
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:05:56PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.23.1449 +0200]:
> > I don't know how to test the actual functioning of a spare drive. With
> > no activity on a spare, S.M.A.R.T. may not have any data to go on.
>
> Yes, i
also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.23.1449 +0200]:
> I don't know how to test the actual functioning of a spare drive. With
> no activity on a spare, S.M.A.R.T. may not have any data to go on.
Yes, it will. Obviously, use of a drive will more likely cause
errors, but as lon
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:05:17PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I know mdadm offers a "--test" command, but it seems quite useless:
>
> -t, --test
> Generate a TestMessage alert for every array found at
> startup. This alert gets mailed and passed to the alert program. This
> can
also sprach Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.23.0505 +0200]:
> That helps with knowing that alerts are working, but I'd like to be able
> to test the spare drive in an array. Is there any way to test a spare
> device in a RAID to make sure it's in good shape and not likely to fail
> onc
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