disk scrubber for Linux?
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Thu Dec 8 19:02:01 EST 2005
On Dec 8, 2005, at 17:22, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> If the other disk goes bad and you think,
> "No problem, I'll just replace that bad disk" you're
> buggered because the remaining disk has the bad block
> and you won't know it until you go to read that file
> when you're syncing the new disk.
Ah, right - so you're trying to avoid replacing a disk when SMART tells
you it's starting to fail? I can see where this might be handy in a
massive ultra-low-cost storage (hey, come get 5GB of free e-mail
storage) farm but I wouldn't recommend it for a typical business
client. Sort of like the badmem patches for linux - a cool hack but
maybe not the wisest idea.
Lately I've just been seeing disks fail cold - no warning, just pop an
IC - no motor, no heads. Especially Hitachi Deskstars [cue Vader
voice], 250GB range.
-Bill
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