Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:49:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:49:27 -0500 Received: from twilight.cs.hut.fi ([130.233.40.5]:54034 "EHLO twilight.cs.hut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:49:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:48:59 +0200 From: Ville Herva To: adilger@turbolabs.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Journaling pointless with today's hard disks? Message-ID: <20011127134859.L4809@niksula.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <20011126170631.O730@lynx.no> <20011127003843.Z730@lynx.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011127003843.Z730@lynx.no>; from adilger@turbolabs.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:38:43AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:38:43AM -0700, you [Andreas Dilger] claimed: > > Oh, I know SMART is implemented, although I haven't actually seen/used a > tool which takes advantage of it (do you have such a thing?). It would > be nice if there were messages appearing in my syslog (just like the > AIX days) which said "there were 10 temporary read errors at block M on > drive X yesterday" and "1 permanent write error at block M, block remapped > on drive X yesterday", so I would know _before_ my drive craps out There are packaged smartsuite and ide-smart at linux-ide.org. I think smartd from smartsuite does just that. At least smartctl does read the values in understandable format. BTW: does anyone know if it is supposed to understand the temperature sensors supposedly present in newer IBM drives? -- v -- v@iki.fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/