Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jesus, Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 5:54:35 AM, you wrote: JC -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- JC Hash: SHA1 JC Joerg Schilling wrote: What they missed to say is that you need to access the whole disk frequently enough in order to give SMART the ability to work. JC I thought modern

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Link to the paper is http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf As for the spares debate, that is easy: use spares :-) What they missed to say is that you need to access the whole disk frequently enough in order to give SMART the ability to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-20 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joerg Schilling wrote: What they missed to say is that you need to access the whole disk frequently enough in order to give SMART the ability to work. I thought modern disks could be instructed to do offline scanning, using any idle time available.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-19 Thread Richard Elling
Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: I believe that the word would have gone around already, Google engineers have published a paper on disk reliability. It might supplement the ZFS FMA integration and well - all the numerous debates on spares etc etc over here. Good paper. They validate the old

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-19 Thread Torrey McMahon
Richard Elling wrote: Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: I believe that the word would have gone around already, Google engineers have published a paper on disk reliability. It might supplement the ZFS FMA integration and well - all the numerous debates on spares etc etc over here. Good paper. They

Re: [zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-18 Thread Chris Ridd
On 18/2/07 4:56, Akhilesh Mritunjai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks I believe that the word would have gone around already, Google engineers have published a paper on disk reliability. It might supplement the ZFS FMA integration and well - all the numerous debates on spares etc etc over

[zfs-discuss] Google paper on disk reliability

2007-02-17 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Hi Folks I believe that the word would have gone around already, Google engineers have published a paper on disk reliability. It might supplement the ZFS FMA integration and well - all the numerous debates on spares etc etc over here. To quote /. The Google engineers just published a paper on