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| 88 | | [[Image(wiki:images:erwan.jpg)]] |
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| 90 | | |
| 91 | | === Erwan Velu (Packager and Maintainer) === |
| 92 | | |
| 93 | | My interest in SMART arose at my previous job at Mandriva. I was |
| 94 | | building up a Linux distribution to turn a set of computers into a super computer (HPC). |
| 95 | | While looking at how we can manage such a cluster, I was faced with some failing disks. |
| 96 | | Doing a short research on that problem, I found this project. |
| 97 | | |
| 98 | | As I am also packaging applications in RPM for Mandriva Linux, I decided |
| 99 | | to include smartmontools in it. My role is to keep smartmontools |
| 100 | | up-to-date in the Linux distribution and reporting bugs to the |
| 101 | | developers. To be honest, this happens once in a blue moon. |
| 102 | | |
| 103 | | Since I am implicated in the smartmontools project, friends often ask me for |
| 104 | | help in understanding how theirs disks feels ;o). So I also wrote an |
| 105 | | [http://www.lea-linux.org/documentations/index.php/Hardware-hard_plus-smart article about smartmontools] |
| 106 | | in French language. |
