On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:53 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:22:03PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: <skipped> > > > Do you understand what short and long offline tests actually do and what > > > they're used for? :-) If so, you'd know that running them periodically > > > is more or less silly (IMHO). > > I do not, not completely :) I think I have just copied the settings from > > somewhere and only just tweaked it a bit whenever I have added a disk. > > Let me know if you figure out who or what online resource solicited > adding daily short/long tests, as I'd like to talk to them about their > decision. I have a feeling whoever thought it up felt that the tests > were performing entire sector scans of the entire disk, which is simply > not the case. While I am not the OP, one such place would be example configuration file in 'man smartd.conf'.
HTH, -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко) _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
