Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?

[David G. Mackay]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:27 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:49 -0500,
>   "David G. Mackay" <mackay_d at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Shouldn't there have been some indication of problems prior to the
> > failure?
> 
> Only if you are lucky. Someone at Google published some information about
> smart around a year ago. In cases where catastrophic failures occur, for a high
> percentage there is no warning from smart.

Thanks, I'll have to look that up.  Suddenly the feeling that I'm
getting about smart isn't quite so warm and fuzzy.

Dave