Bruce Allen wrote: > Hi Tejun, > > Sorry, this is a really really slow reply. This email came at an > unusually busy time and I did not reply before it got buried in the deluge. Well, you were slow but I'm slower. :-) >> 2. This is from Roland. Make smartd aware of the problem and warn user >> if load/unload count per powered on hours goes too high. Maybe the >> warning can direct the user to linux-ata.org page? > > It would be easy to implement this in smartd. But I'm concerned about > three things: > > -- most people don't run smartd (I think by default it is off on > the main Linux distros). Those wise enough to run smartd will > probably be aware of the issue, since it's gotten lots of buzz. And > even if smartd is turned on in the distro it is normally not > configured to send warning emails. We only have to hit one instance of each configuration where such problem is occurring. I think adding warning message out smartctl output or letting smartd warn it to users via email or log messages should be good enough for this problem. > -- I'm not sure if the attribute used for head load/unload is a standard > one. On my current laptop Hitachi disk it is attribute 193. Does > anyone know if this is standard? I have no idea whatsoever. Maybe implement a regexp matching on attribute name? > -- I'm not sure at what threshold to send warning emails. If we send > too many false alarms, they will be ignored by users. To get it correct completely, I think we'll need per-device database. Not easy.... :-( Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
