Hi,
If this is stupid, just say so and ignore me, but I don't really know
much about how the smart drive suppose to be any good monitoring works
to alerts of up coming hard drive failures. I saw some exchanges on
misc@ from Marco I think, may be when talks about softraid where he give
an example of reading data and some where indicative of smart value.
That was a few months ago, so my memory is fussy at best, but I do
recall that.
Now is that something that is suppose to be done only at the start by
the bios for example when the computer is turn on, or all along the way
at regular interval and provide valid data or is it all crap and
marketing only hipe?
I wonder if that's not such a stupid idea if having it in sysctl may
make any sense or not. I am not asking for anyone to do the work if the
idea is not stupid and have some kind of valid outcome.
I only came up with the idea for example as my son was asking me about
drivers and how they work as I am working on a display driver for a
possible server that I would turn into a router. I am not sure of all
the details yet, but never the less, I sure don't know what I am really
talking about here for the smart, but look to me based on what Marco
said that it's juts about reading data from the drive and compare the
results to know if smart alerts are trigger or not. Is that the case?
There is paper on this, but in real life is that's actually any good?
If true, look to me that in that case, it may be possible to do this if
that have any real value and if it does, then it may not be such a big
project to do and may be a good small idea to put into place. I thought
that it may not be to complicated and that it may be possible to help
him do that, just as a fun learning project if nothing else and if it
actually works in the end, may be useful, or not.
But I would appreciate to know if what I think may not be a bad idea, or
actually is totally stupid and should be forgotten. Unless I am
mistaken, I do not believe smart is available in sysctl, may be in the
softraid part however.
Would this be useful? Is smart actually trusted to be of any value?
Best,
Daniel
