Bug#724458: RFP: diskscan -- Scan disk for bad or near failure sectors

[Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : diskscan
  Version         : 0.02
  Upstream Author : Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
* URL             : https://github.com/baruch/diskscan
* License         : GPL3+
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Scan disk for bad or near failure sectors

DiskScan is a Unix/Linux 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. This can be used to assess the
state of the disk and maybe decide on a replacement in advance to its
imminent failure. The disk self test may or may not pick up on such
clues depending on the disk vendor decision making logic.