Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with gdbus-codegen

[Mick]

On Sunday 29 Jan 2017 09:59:53 Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 01/29/2017 02:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> Do you have a SSD? That sounds like symptoms of a failing SSD to me
> >> (it's happened more than once to me :/)
> >
> > Yes, nothing but one 256 GB NVMe drive in this box. Is there something
> > like
> > hdparm that will keep an eye on it for me?
> >
> > I hope it isn't that already: the whole system only dates from last May.
>
> I used to run an SSD on my home server (running mythtv, among other
> things), until one day I got home and it was misbehaving.
>
> I couldn't log into the server using ssh, so I logged in on the console.
> Everything appeared to be running but nothing new would load. Tried
> sync'ing to see if I could remerge various packages but got a similar
> weird error and found out half my portage tree was *poof*. On further
> inspection, about 40% of the OS files were gone. No wonder I problems
> logging on.
>
> This happened twice to me, so I no longer use SSDs on machines I use as
> servers in my home, they're just too unreliable. At least with spinning
> rust you get some warning and can usually do some recovery.

PVR/DVRs use a different specification of drives, which spin at a lower speed 
and remain cooler for long(er) periods of operation.


> As far as monitoring, some vendors have tools for that I believe. They
> usually do run SMART.
>
> Are you running fstrim once in a while like it's recommended? Apparently
> using 'discard' as an option when mounting is no longer recommended. On
> my laptops I use a systemd timer to do this. Before that I used anacron
> (I think it was anacron) which would run missed cronjobs.
>
> Dan

This is surprised me ... I just installed Gentoo on a MacBook and the 
handbook/wiki said to use discard in fstab ... I'm running two PCs like this 
now.  :-/

Is there a URL somewhere recommending otherwise?

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Regards,
Mick