Re: Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?

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To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?
From: "David G. Mackay" <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:41:37 -0500
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Organization: Mackay Development
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Reply-to: mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:27 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:49 -0500,
>   "David G. Mackay" <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Shouldn't there have been some indication of problems prior to the
> > failure?
> 
> Only if you are lucky. Someone at Google published some information about
> smart around a year ago. In cases where catastrophic failures occur, for a high
> percentage there is no warning from smart.

Thanks, I'll have to look that up.  Suddenly the feeling that I'm
getting about smart isn't quite so warm and fuzzy.

Dave

References:
- Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?
  - From: David G. Mackay
- Re: Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?
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