Hey cephers, Just wanted to share the genesis of a new community project that could use a few helping hands (and any amount of feedback/discussion that you might like to offer). As a bit of backstory, around 2013 the Backblaze folks started publishing statistics about hard drive reliability from within their data center for the world to consume. This included things like model, make, failure state, and SMART data. If you would like to view the Backblaze data set, you can find it at: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html While most major cloud providers are doing this for themselves internally, we would like to replicate/enhance this effort across a much wider segment of the population as a free service. I think we have a pretty good handle on the server/platform side of things, and a couple of people who have expressed interest in building the reliability model (although we could always use more!), what we really need is a passionate volunteer who would like to come forward to write the agent that sits on the drives, aggregates data, and submits daily stats reports via an API (and potentially receives information back as results are calculated about MTTF or potential to fail in the next 24-48 hrs). Currently my thinking is to build our collection method based on the Backblaze data set so that we can use it to train our model and build from going forward. If this sounds like a project you would like to be involved in (especially if you're from Backblaze!) please let me know. I think a first pass of the agent should be something we can build in a couple of afternoons to start testing with a small pilot group that we already have available. Happy to entertain any thoughts or feedback that people might have. Thanks! -- Best Regards, Patrick McGarry Director Ceph Community || Red Hat http://ceph.com || http://community.redhat.com @scuttlemonkey || @ceph -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
