Mark Hahn wrote:
is it known what a long self-test does? for instance, ultimately you
want the disk to be scrubbed over some fairly lengthy period of time.
that is, not just read and checked, possibly with parity "fixed",
but all blocks read and rewritten (with verify, I suppose!)
The smartctl man page is a little vague, but it looks like it does no
writing.
Paraphrasing somewhat:
short selftest - The "Self" tests check the electrical and
mechanical performance as well as the read performance of the disk.
long selftest - This is a longer and more thorough version of the
Short Self Test described above.
Richard
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