Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 1999 01:26:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: Disk MTBF |
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Mike Black wrote:
> We were having some discussions on disk MTBF and somebody suggested this: > > -- Have a daemon that refreshes every sector on a disk once per month > > This would re-write sectors so as to decrease the probability of a read > error due to magnetic loss. > > Comments anybody? Is this feasible to do?
I seem to remember something on Solaris that would allow one to "refresh" the filesystem but I have to go looking for it. WOuld be nice to do this for Linux. WIll let you knwo when I sumble into it again.
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