Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-28 Thread JoaoBR
On Monday 27 October 2008 20:03:21 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I had no idea users were blindly uncommenting examples in well seems you're new in support business then :) the issue might be the reason why weapons are not delivered with roles in the chambers ... so developers probably should take

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 27/10/2008 21:59 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:50:44PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:52:01PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Now, does the timeout cause loss of any data? Is there anything besides

Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Vaclav Haisman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have recently bought a new disk (Seagate 500G, ST3500320NS). I have enabled SMART checking using the smartmontools as usual for the disk (/dev/ad6 -a -S on -s (S/../.././03|L/../../7/03) -m root). The problem is that each time the test runs I

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:16:59AM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have recently bought a new disk (Seagate 500G, ST3500320NS). I have enabled SMART checking using the smartmontools as usual for the disk (/dev/ad6 -a -S on -s

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Vaclav Haisman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:16:59AM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have recently bought a new disk (Seagate 500G, ST3500320NS). I have enabled SMART checking using the

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:22:03PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:16:59AM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: Second, your short offline test runs at 0300, but the errors you're seeing are at 0454 in the morning. A short offline test does not take

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread martinko
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Now, does the timeout cause loss of any data? Is there anything besides disabling the testing that I can do about it? Do you understand what short and long offline tests actually do and what they're used for? :-) If so, you'd know that running them periodically is more

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:52:01PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Now, does the timeout cause loss of any data? Is there anything besides disabling the testing that I can do about it? Do you understand what short and long offline tests actually do and what they're used for?

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:22:03PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:16:59AM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: Second, your short offline test runs at 0300, but the errors you're seeing are at 0454 in the morning. A short

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread martinko
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:52:01PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Now, does the timeout cause loss of any data? Is there anything besides disabling the testing that I can do about it? Do you understand what short and long offline tests actually do and

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread martinko
martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:52:01PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Now, does the timeout cause loss of any data? Is there anything besides disabling the testing that I can do about it? Do you understand what short and long offline tests

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:50:44PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:52:01PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Now, does the timeout cause loss of any data? Is there anything besides disabling the testing that I can do about it? Do you

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:50:44PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:52:01PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Now, does the timeout cause loss of any data? Is there anything besides disabling the testing that I

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:53 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:22:03PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: skipped Do you understand what short and long offline tests actually do and what they're used for? :-) If so, you'd know that running them

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 21:45 +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:50:44PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:52:01PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Now, does the timeout cause loss of

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 05:30:26PM -0400, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 21:45 +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:50:44PM +0100, martinko wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:52:01PM

Re: Short SMART check causes disk op timeouts

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Snow
IMO, A much better option to run on a weekly basis is to use a RAID controller with verify feature (eg. 3ware) or use ZFS scrub mode. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To