Re: How important is SCTERC?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 04/27/2017 11:35 PM, Ram Ramesh wrote:
> Experts,
> 
> I ordered a couple of 6TB drives from goHarddrive that claimed to be NAS
> suitable, but SMART shows that they do not support
> scterc. I want to replace two of my 3TB drives with these in mdadm
> raid6. I can get a replacement or return, but want to avoid the hassle,
> if I am not seious danger.

Depends on "serious".  I would return for exchange with proper NAS
drives.  And report the vendor for false advertising.

> I do run tler.sh that sets 180s timeout for drives that do not have
> scterc from /etc/rc.local. Am I putting my data in serious danger? I
> only have videos and tv recordings in this md which can be replaced with
> significant effort (about 12TB of movies and tv shows will take some
> time to copy from my DVDs/BDs)

The 180-second timeout is a band-aid, not a solution.  Keep in mind that
your array will appear to be frozen for up to three minutes any time you
have a URE.  That will have application side-effects and especially
consequences from impatient users.

Phil
--
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



[Index of Archives]     [Linux RAID Wiki]     [ATA RAID]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Linux Block]     [Linux IDE]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux Hams]     [Device Mapper]     [Device Mapper Cryptographics]     [Kernel]     [Linux Admin]     [Linux Net]     [GFS]     [RPM]     [git]     [Yosemite Forum]


  Powered by Linux