Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David W. Chapman Jr. writes: On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:14:24PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: If we want a surface scrubber, we ought to have a real one; it's also very, very bad in the laptop context (since it keeps waking your disks up). I have the shar of the

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-24 Thread Mike Smith
If we want a surface scrubber, we ought to have a real one; it's also very, very bad in the laptop context (since it keeps waking your disks up). If we're going to keep it, it should be turned off by default at any rate. diskcheckd is very annoying. Many doubt its usefulness in detecting

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-24 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:14:24PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: If we want a surface scrubber, we ought to have a real one; it's also very, very bad in the laptop context (since it keeps waking your disks up). I have the shar of the port up at http://people.freebsd.org:~/dwcjr/diskcheckd.shar

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-24 Thread Martin Müller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 2:49 AM Subject: Re: diskcheckd is poo From: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: diskcheckd is poo Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:14:24PM -0700 If we want a surface scrubber, we ought

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
From: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: diskcheckd is poo Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:14:24PM -0700 If we want a surface scrubber, we ought to have a real one; it's also very, very bad in the laptop context (since it keeps waking your disks up). If we're going to keep

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-23 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:07:15PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems David O'Brien wrote: diskcheckd is very annoying. Many doubt its usefulness in detecting errors before it is too late. It thinks 40% of my disks are bad (which I don't). I've turned it off, I know many that have.

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems David O'Brien wrote: diskcheckd is very annoying. Many doubt its usefulness in detecting errors before it is too late. It thinks 40% of my disks are bad (which I don't). I've turned it off, I know many that have. I would like to

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-23 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:11:00PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: If someone could roll a tarball for me, I could atleast make the skeleton for the port if not finish it off. We should just repo copy it to ports. See how I do the setcdboot port. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To

diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-23 Thread David O'Brien
diskcheckd is very annoying. Many doubt its usefulness in detecting errors before it is too late. It thinks 40% of my disks are bad (which I don't). I've turned it off, I know many that have. I would like to remove it from the base system and put it in ports. I really don't see what

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-23 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems David O'Brien wrote: diskcheckd is very annoying. Many doubt its usefulness in detecting errors before it is too late. It thinks 40% of my disks are bad (which I don't). I've turned it off, I know many that have. I would like to remove it from the base system and put it in

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-23 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:57:15PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:11:00PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: If someone could roll a tarball for me, I could atleast make the skeleton for the port if not finish it off. We should just repo copy it to ports. See how

Re: diskcheckd is poo

2001-08-23 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:51:41PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: Here is a shar of what I am working on. Comments patches and complaints are appreciated. I just have to make the rc script for it to startup on boot. http://people.freebsd.org/~dwcjr/diskcheckd.shar -- Update: I