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diff --git a/system/diskscan/README b/system/diskscan/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..44c4ac5beb --- /dev/null +++ b/system/diskscan/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +DiskScan is a tool to scan a block device and check if there are unreadable +sectors, in addition it uses read latency times as an assessment for a near +failure as sectors that are problematic to read usually entail many retries. + +Diskscan will only perform reads in its disk surface scan so it is not +destructive in any way and it will report on all the key metrics needed to +decide if the disk is good or not. + + |