<div dir="ltr"><div>Hej!<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 12:34 PM Erik Starbäck <<a href="mailto:erik.starback@uppmax.uu.se">erik.starback@uppmax.uu.se</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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For all our nodes with HW-raid we think it is rather clear... when the raid kicks out a disk. We discard it. We let the HW-RAID make the decision for us.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Basically a hw-raid controller or a server firmware kicks a drive out of
the array when a certain threshold of certain SMART attributes is
reached. It could also just check the current SMART Health value and
kick a disk out when the disk is considered dead. This is proprietary
software so we don't know exactly what triggers it.</div><div>By looking at (and not ignoring) the SMART values and their warnings, you can be informed way in advance before a disk actually dies. This gives you time for preparations, such as ordering replacements and scheduling maintenance etc. I've documented such an example here: <a href="https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/469/multiple-several-ways-monitor-physical-hard-drive-disk">https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/469/multiple-several-ways-monitor-physical-hard-drive-disk</a> <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
For example: I got mails about "Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors". Is it insane to discard that disk?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This means that you (most likely) have a sector which went bad. From experience I can tell you that there's never a single bad/defect sector; it's a matter of time until the counter increases. <br></div><div>I have the following personal rule of thumb for warnings showing up. </div><div>Production server: Order or prepare replacement from inventory, exchange as soon as possible (no urgency, but the quicker the better)</div><div>Non-production server: No hurry - watch the counter increase for a while and then replace the drive <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
With this line I realize smartd can mail with 152 different subjects. How could I decide what action to make?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, there are a couple of SMART attributes and not all of them make sense to jump out of your seat. I find the SMART article on Wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring,_Analysis_and_Reporting_Technology">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring,_Analysis_and_Reporting_Technology</a>) quite helpful. Scroll down to "Known ATA SMART Attributes" and look at the critical column. This is a helpful indicator.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>ck</div></div></div>