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List:       npaci-rocks-discussion
Subject:    Re: [Rocks-Discuss]/etc/smartd.conf
From:       David Black-Schaffer <davidbbs () stanford ! edu>
Date:       2006-04-28 18:23:55
Message-ID: D270D059-28A8-4778-8212-73A7635A3794 () stanford ! edu
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> if you do run your cluster with /etc/smard.conf removed, let us know
> how it goes.
>
> if your cluster runs well, then we'll ensure that file is removed in
> the next release of rocks.

Is this really a good idea? I added smatd.conf to 411 and have all my  
nodes doing weekly short self-tests on their local disks. I also get  
emails from one of my nodes warning me of a (supposedly) impending  
disk failure due to "Currently unreadable (pending) sectors". If  
these self-test are worth anything and the emails correct, I would  
certainly like to keep smartd.conf around, and, indeed, add it to 411  
by default. (The default settings are not very helpful as the mail  
messages bounce.)

If people are having problems with smartd.conf and it is in 411 they  
could always just make it a blank file, which should do the same  
thing as removing it.

Here's my smartd.conf file:

# Setup the internal drive to send daily emails if something goes wrong.
# Run a short self-test every Sunday at 2am. (-s S/../../7/02)
# Report changes to the health status (-H)

/dev/hda -H -M daily -m root -s S/../../7/02

	-David


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