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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:14:24 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: diskcheckd is poo 
Message-ID:  <200108242314.f7ONEOn06169@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:03:41 PDT." <20010823130341.A3190@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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If we want a surface scrubber, we ought to have a "real" one; it's
also very, very bad in the laptop context (since it keeps waking your
disks up).

If we're going to keep it, it should be turned off by default at any rate.

> diskcheckd is very annoying.  Many doubt its usefulness in detecting
> errors before it is too late.  It thinks 40% of my disks are bad (which
> I don't).  I've turned it off, I know many that have.
> 
> I would like to remove it from the base system and put it in ports.  I
> really don't see what justifies keeping it in /usr/src.
> 
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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