On Oct 28, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For any serious use I just wouldn't use the Greens, without very non-consumer like scrubs, extended smart tests, and cycling out drives so they could be ATA Enhance Secure Erase nuked say once a year or maybe more often. And a rigorous backup. With that kind of expertise and dedication should come a better budget for a better drive. On 2nd thought, I'd consider the greens something like a "hostile witness" in legal jargon. Relegate them to only ZFS or btrfs (or ReFS maybe, unclear) for "raid" like pooling or redundancy. The drives themselves are inherently suspect so a suspicious grand inquisitor of a file system seems like an appropriate match, to constantly 2nd guess them. But still, once a drive is asked to retrieve an LBA, so long as the drive eventually reports it back correctly, the file system won't correct that sector merely for a delay, even if it is up to 2 minutes or whatever it is. So, filesystem choice doesn't really solve the delay problem. You just have to obliterate the disk periodically with zeros or secure erase. Chris Murphy -- 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
