On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:54:17PM -0800, Robert Walsh wrote: > > I'm pretty sure this doesn't provide the semantics you want. > > I've been experimenting with something similar, actually. I'm looking > at the SMART data from the drive and working from that. The advantage > with this is that it can apparently tell you when your drive is about to > fail even when it hasn't yet failed. I believe even older drives have a > certain amount of SMART support in there, so it should work even on the > ScrapIron cluster.
I'd love to see some sort of ganglia integration with SMART, maybe via the smartmontools code (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/). One gotcha to watch out for is that a number of IBM GXP drives fail when they get SMART queries. :-( -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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