On 9 May 2017, Reindl Harald said: > Am 09.05.2017 um 12:28 schrieb Nix: >> Honestly, scrubs are looking less and less desirable the more I talk >> about them. Massive worry inducers that don't actually spot problems in >> any meaningful sense (not even at the level of "there is a problem on >> this disk", just "there is a problem on this array") > > that is your opinion > > my expierience over years using md-arrays is that *everytime* smartd triggered a alert mail that a drive will fail soon it happened > while the scrub was running and so you can replace drives as soon as possible What, it triggered a SMART warning while a scrub was running which SMART long self-tests didn't? That's depressing. You'd think SMART would be watching for errors while it's own tests were running! (Or were you not running any long self-tests? That's at least as risky as not scrubbing, IMNSHO.) -- 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
