[mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5

[Jim Cheetham]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:58 AM, James Booth<james at booths.net.nz> wrote:
> I think Jim has a point. All my drives were reporting A-OK through SMART,
> and the failed drive still reports OK - it just throws I/O errors and locks
> up if you try to write to it. I have read a couple of research papers which
> have come to the conclusion that SMART is almost useless for predicting when
> a drive will actually fail, and (from memory) around half of drives fail
> without any prior warning.

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html