On 01/14/2014 01:00 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:29:28 -0800
George Mitchell <geo...@chinilu.com> wrote:
what we are lacking at this point is a SMART capability to provide
visual notifications to the user when any hard drive starts to seriously
degrade or suddenly fails.
You can configure smartd (from smartmontools) to send you E-Mails on any
change of the monitored SMART attributes.
Well, sorry, email is nice, but it doesn't work for me as a desktop
user. 1) I don't want to have to hand configure and email system like
sendmail to generate outgoing emails. 2) I don't want to have to go
through and hand configure /etc/smartd/conf. 3) I don't want my email
clogged up with SMART messages.
If SMART were capable of launching pop up warnings
And I'm sure there are a number of GUI tools out there for just about any OS,
which can do just that
Really? And for Linux they are? I know it can be done because various
administrative tools provided by my distro routinely flash up status
notices on my screen. I really like that. It lets my know what my
system is doing. journalctl provides red type warnings when a drive is
failing. That should be thrown up on the screen and stay there till I
dismiss it. To me thats a no brainer.
btrfs would not have to worry so much about arrays going simplex undetected.
That said, do not fall into a false sense of security relying on proprietary,
barely if ever updated after the device has been shipped, and often very
peculiar-behaving SMART routines inside the black-box HDD firmware as your
most important data safeguard.
Of course SMART must be checked and monitored, but don't delude yourself into
thinking it will always warn you of anything going wrong well in advance of
failure, or even at all.
Well, since I began using SMART I have had a total of two drive failures
so far and both of them generated warnings and the drives in question
were still operating normally when I disgarded them. Plenty of
opportunity to retrieve the data and wipe the drives. I'm sure SMART
does fail advance notifictation in some instances, but even when it
does, at least it will certainly warn me IMMEDIATELY that the drive is
gone after the fact.
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