[H-GEN] predicting/recognising HD failure (was Tape Drives)
Matthew Taylor
bmatthewtaylor at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jan 5 23:35:05 EST 2002
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got curious just now along the lines of 'recognising when a drive is about to
fail' , saw this
http://www.storage.ibm.com/ipl/oem/tech/pfa.htm
and had a look at
man fsck
As I understand it fsck (normally) runs in standard startup scripts, and
unless the previous powerdown bypassed the shutdown scripts, no errors should
be reported (normally).
Would it be feasable to write a short script to email the admin a specific
warning if fsck detected a level of errors above some threshold? [nb: I
confess, I dont read my startup logs regularly, where some of this
information is normally provided.]
NB: This should not be relied upon to bypass 'good' physical backup
procedures.
I suspect many raid installations have self monitoring routines already
installed. Comments from those who use raid?
Mat.
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