Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > What they missed to say is that you need to access the whole disk > > frequently enough in order to give SMART the ability to work. > > I thought modern disks could be instructed t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-20 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Schilling wrote: > What they missed to say is that you need to access the whole disk > frequently enough in order to give SMART the ability to work. I thought modern disks could be instructed to do "offline scanning", using any idle time availab

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Link to the paper is http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf > > As for the spares debate, that is easy: use spares :-) What they missed to say is that you need to access the whole disk frequently enough in order to give SMART the ability

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-19 Thread Torrey McMahon
Richard Elling wrote: Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: I believe that the word would have gone around already, Google engineers have published a paper on disk reliability. It might supplement the ZFS FMA integration and well - all the numerous debates on spares etc etc over here. Good paper. They

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-19 Thread Richard Elling
Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: I believe that the word would have gone around already, Google engineers have published a paper on disk reliability. It might supplement the ZFS FMA integration and well - all the numerous debates on spares etc etc over here. Good paper. They validate the old saying

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-18 Thread Chris Ridd
On 18/2/07 4:56, "Akhilesh Mritunjai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks > > I believe that the word would have gone around already, Google engineers have > published a paper on disk reliability. It might supplement the ZFS FMA > integration and well - all the numerous debates on spares etc et