Re: long tests automatically get interrupted

Dan Lukes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 06/14/14 00:47, Andrew Engelbrecht:
> would you like for me to make a section on the faq addressing this issue?

Not personally, but the appropriate person read this list as well.

> "... may busy out the drive for the length of the test. <This may cause
> the kernel to reset the device during an extended test. Also,>

Unfortunately, long-term busy out may cause many symptoms. For example - 
for RAID members it may cause the drive is expelled from RAID.

I'm not sure we should name just one randomly selected case.

Fortunately, it's not up to me.

Dan


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