sqlite error: disk I/O error

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:
> Going a bit off topic here, but S.M.A.R.T. is not all that smart, and there could be data that is secretly failing and becoming corrupt, yet passing all tests.

I've had good luck with smartmontools (available from MacPorts ;-) ).

Adding something like:

DEVICESCAN -m my_email at my_domain -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -M exec /usr/bin/mail

to smartd.conf

So far, every failing disk has generated an error email some time before it became totally unreadable (which makes it less likely that I'll have to restore from backup, so usually saves me some time). Nothing is going to be able to give you 100% warning, though...

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