S.M.A.R.T. and Fedora

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Alexandre Strube wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>I see there's a server calld smartd. I know it monitors SMART system.
>
>But my question is another one.
>
>Trying with several identical machines, the performance would noticeably
>drop down if you enable SMART on bios, during disk cloning (using norton
>ghost). In fact, it has fallen to half-speed, compared with it has with
>smart disabled on bios.
>
>Is this difference as obvious in fedora? Will this smartd daemon make my
>system slower?
>
>Thanks for the info.
>
>
>  
>
Alexandre,

I really dont know why ghost dropped to half speed with smart enabled , 
but it shouldnt. SMART was developed as a tool to check drives withouth 
affecting their performance.
As I already have been saved by smart , I use smartd even if it 
decreases performance. Later I'm gonna reboot on FC1 to update it and 
I'm gonna run some hdparm tests and some copy tests..
I'll let you guys know the results as soon as I have them...

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Pedro Macedo