At Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:24:23 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:05:47 +
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I think you misunderstood the first reply: smartd, as in the init script is
a
means to alert root of pending issues, _it_ doesn't present the
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:11:58 -0400
Robert Heller wrote:
The disk's *firmware* updated itself.
...
Appearently, palimpsest does some of what smartctl does: accesses the
SMART data on the drive. This is completely independent of smartd.
Smartd is a daemon that runs in the background and
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
The disk's *firmware* updated itself. So long as the *disk* is powered
up and spinning, its *firmware* is 'running' (or runs when the disk is
accessed or something like that). Modern disks are a long, long way
from the simple MFM drives of the 1970s
At Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:36:25 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list
centos@centos.org wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
The disk's *firmware* updated itself. So long as the *disk* is powered
up and spinning, its *firmware* is 'running' (or runs when the disk is
accessed or
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
*snip*
The disk's *firmware* updated itself. So long as the *disk* is powered
up and spinning, its *firmware* is 'running' (or runs when the disk is
accessed or something like that). Modern disks are a long, long way
from the simple MFM drives of
At Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:35:12 +0100 (BST) CentOS mailing list
centos@centos.org wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Robert Heller wrote:
*snip*
The disk's *firmware* updated itself. So long as the *disk* is powered
up and spinning, its *firmware* is 'running' (or runs when the disk is
At Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:57:59 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
I notice that the smartd service is not running by default on a new
installation. But palimpsest seems to get updated statistics every so often as
when I check the statistics on a drive it says last updated some
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:42:46 -0400
Robert Heller wrote:
Almost all modern disk are S.M.A.R.T capable. What this means is that
various information about the disk, mostly relating to its health can be
monitored. This includes things like sector errors. If smartd is
running root will get
As smartd isn't running in the default Centos configuration, where does
palimpsest get its information? Is it a self-contained program that doesn't
require smartd or is something else happening behind the scenes?
I think you misunderstood the first reply: smartd, as in the init script is a
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:05:47 +
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I think you misunderstood the first reply: smartd, as in the init script is a
means to alert root of pending issues, _it_ doesn't present the data, _that_
init script simply checks it and reports it. You don't need it running to
make
Which still doesn't answer my question. Perhaps I'm wording it poorly -- I'll
try again:
Perhaps palimpsest runs smartctl and queries the device itself? Perhaps it
borrowed
code from the project and runs the query itself? I don't have any servers with
GUI's,
couldn't tell you...
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