On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:27 +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:31:37 -0400 > Ric Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > If you have remapped a big chunk of the sectors (say more than 10%), you > > should grab the data off the disk asap and replace it. Worry less about > > errors during read, writes indicate more serious errors. > > Ok, now for the bad news: money is invented. > If you replace a disk before real failure you won't get replacement from the > manufacturer. That may sound irrelevant to someone handling 5 disks, but is > significant if handling 500 or more. The replacement rate is indeed much > higher than people think from their home pcs.
Hardware vendors already do replace disks based on policies defined by their own array hardware. These are already predictive. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
