Re: False alarms after hot-swapping drives

Brent Howards wrote:
> ...
>
> About 20 minutes hot-swapping out two hard drives (currently inactive 
> and not part of any array) for drives of a different make/model, I 
> received emails that included the following (one for each of the paths 
> that had had its drive swapped):
>
> ...
>
> smartmontools persisted in alerting me to these phantom errors via my 
> syslog for the next several hours, however, until I restarted it at 
> which point there were no more messages.
>
> Is this a known problem with hot-swapping drives or is there something 
> more worrisome going on?

Hot swapping is not supported yet:
https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/695

Could possibly be fixed by checking device identity before each check 
(enabled by e.g. a new -d hotswap directive) and trigger a rescan if 
changed.

Thanks,
Christian


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