Hey John, Definitely be a great place to start from if you can find it. I can carve out a place in the Ceph github to push it to so we can all poke at it a bit. Thanks! On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 3:35 PM, John Spray <jspray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- 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
