Bug 176795 - add scheduled short and long tests to default install
Summary: add scheduled short and long tests to default install
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: smartmontools
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
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Reported: 2006-01-02 20:42 UTC by Dan Hollis
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-01-02 21:04:14 UTC
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Description Dan Hollis 2006-01-02 20:42:12 UTC
Description of problem:
it would be nice if weekly/bi-monthly short and long offline tests were made
part of the default install. eg instead of:

/dev/hda -H -m root

it could be something like
/dev/hda -H -s (S/../.././01|L/../(01|15)/./03) -m root

(daily short offline, and bi-weekly long offline tests)

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Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2006-01-02 21:04:14 UTC
There can be potential conflicts (or at least slowdowns) caused by the offline
tests. As anyone can reconfigure smartd.conf as he wishes I don't think it's
necessary or even safe to enable them for everyone by default.


Comment 2 Dan Hollis 2006-01-02 21:15:44 UTC
can't be any worse slowdown than fedora's automatically scheduling
makewhatis.cron by default. as an extension of this reasoning, makewhatis.cron
should be disabled by default, since that has definite severe performance impact.

Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2006-01-02 22:07:22 UTC
Well I can even agree with you that makewhatis.cron shouldn't be run
automatically by default, but this is a completely different bug.

Also I'm afraid that on some buggy disks/IDE controllers it could create even
bigger problems than slowdowns.


Comment 4 Dan Hollis 2006-01-02 22:21:57 UTC
then perhaps smartd shouldnt be installed by default at all then.

it is installed by default now, and even started by default with all available
drives monitored by default, which could be bad on buggy disks/IDE controllers
as you stated.

Comment 5 Dan Hollis 2006-01-10 05:37:07 UTC
do you agree smartd should not be installed by default? it is too dangerous and
risky for buggy disks/IDE controllers.


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