Re: getting I/O errors in super_written()...any ideas what would cause this?

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 06:41 -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:

I don't think that the basic stat gathering (smartctl -a ....) has this kind of 
impact, but am worried about the running of the diagnostics,

Right, that's what I was trying to say above.  Anything that just reads
existing data is fine.  Anything that causes the disk to go off and test
things to gather data is likely to cause I/O errors due to timeouts.

James