On Jan 13, 2008 7:16 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
2. Is it possible to somehow log write to device events as a file entry?
Since many devices have a Write indicator, some way of probing that indicator to increment a counter, then some estimation of drive wear would be captured as a human readable numerical.

Doing so would seem to double the number of write-to-device events.  How about a way to query the device for how many such events had occurred.  We could set up a protocol.  Call it "Systematic Tracking Using Performance Indication Data".  Yeah, that should work.