Re: Is it logical to use a disk that scrub fails but smartctl succeeds?

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:18 PM Remi Gauvin <remi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2019-12-12 10:40 a.m., Cerem Cem ASLAN wrote:
>
> >> Try 'smartctl -t long', then wait some minutes (it will give you an
> >> estimate of how many), then look at the detailed self-test log output from
> >> 'smartctl -x'.  The long self-test usually reads all sectors on the disk
> >> and will quantify errors (giving UNC sector counts and locations).
> >
> > I tried this one, however I couldn't interpret the results. Here is
> > the `smartctl -a /dev/sda` output:
> > https://gist.github.com/1a741135af10f6bebcaf6175c04594df
> >
>
> That drive is toast.. the giveaway here is the over 1000 "Current
> Pending Sectors.".. there's no point trying to convert this drive to
> DUP,, it must simply be stopped, and what files you can successfully
> copy consider lucky.  The rest depends on your backup...  (I wasn't
> clear on why your backup is supposed to be bad... BTRFS should have
> caught any errors during the backup and stopped things with I/O errors.)
>


Exactly. It's possible though that the backup is missing files as a
result of EIO, if those errors weren't discovered until recently.



-- 
Chris Murphy



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