Re: [OT] Smartd: Worth the effort?

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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:29:39 -0500, Brian Fahrlander
<brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     There seems to be a couple of changes to smartd lately (as I would
> expect of open-source) but in several years, this is the ONE thing I
> would have thought it would have reported...for real...not just a
> nightly mention of a trivial counter.  Especially since I've been
> running it since RH 7.*.

smartd is just an interface to the SMART capabilities of the drive. 
Smartd can't tell you your drive is going to fail if the drive isn't
capable of detecting the problem.

-- 
Ben Steeves
            ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx
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