Hello list, could readers please respond with a short yes/no, if they would like smartctl scripts that fix mismatching scterc/controller timeouts to prevent data loss? (Testing them only requires to unzip the file into /etc/udev/rules.d/) And dear maintainers, would you consider shipping the scripts? (Fixing the timeouts seems important for all systems without a default smartctl -l scterc timeout. And all redundancy controlling packages (mdadm, lvm, btrfs, ...) may want to suggest or depend on the smartctl package and set shorter timeouts, i.e. they call the appropriate scripts depending on redundancy states. Thus smartctl seems the right package to ship the scripts and default udev rule, and other packages ship their device specific udev rules.) Cheers, Chris PS: v1.01 has smartctl-default_test.rules for udev and is working well here with drives that have scterc timeout default to "Disabled". Am Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:49:51 +0100 schrieb Chris <email.bug@xxxxxxxx>: > > Hi there, > > here are some "smartctl-timeouts" scripts that fix commonly > mismatching defaults with drives that have no error recovery timeout > configured, which has often lead to data loss. (See the README for > further information.) > > The scripts are the result of discussions on the linux-raid > mailinglist, but it may be best to ship the scripts with smartctl > already (possibly together with a default "non-redundant-disk" udev > rule to ensure proper default timeouts), and let redundancy > controlling packages like mdadm, lvm, btrfs etc. ship their own udev > rules to call the scripts appropriately. > > Please respond whether you'd like to ship the scripts together with > smartctl. > > Cheers, > Chris
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