Asdo <asdo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Giovanni Tessore wrote: >> I didn't setup smart monitoring... Luca is right. >> But I dont like the idea that md relies on another tool, that could >> be not installed or correctly configured, to warn the user on >> potential critical situations which involve directly itself. >> >> From the logs, it results that it did a "check" on md3 the 4 january >> (first read errors at beginning of december, failure of other disk >> 18 january); no read error occurred. >> Looks like it did not help much :( >> Maybe I was just very unluky > > It's strange... quite unlucky I'd say... > Maybe the check needs to be run more frequently, like weekly. > (Asdo taking notes... :-D) > I also am not expert of this kind of statistics. > FWIW I have seen two hardware raid controllers, and they do the scrub > weekly by default. I don't know if they also run SMART tests. > > Also is it possible that you experienced an electricity surge or a > physical shock on the computer? > > Obviously smart checks also help. > > Good luck > Asdo Or the check just does not report errors. You need to read your syslog/kernel log to see read errors and check the mismatch count after a check. Not all distributions do report mismatch count != 0 after a check. Most don't I think. MfG Goswin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html