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) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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.
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.
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.
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.
do you agree smartd should not be installed by default? it is too dangerous and risky for buggy disks/IDE controllers.