On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Patrick McGarry <pmcgarry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I happen to already have written (some time ago) an agent that collects smart data and posts it to a web service. It's in golang and links with a crudely hacked version of smartmontools to gather the stats. Any interest? (hopefully I can find the code...) John > > 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 -- 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
