David Christensen wrote:
I've recently setup a new RAID-5 configuration and wanted to test it
thoroughly before I commit data to it. I'm not so worried about drive
failures so I don't want to power down drives while the system is running,
but I do want to test the drives out by
hi ya
best way to test raid5 is to write large ( 1Gb-2Gb ) data files to it...
and than compare the files
-- oooppss... just re-read david's post skip the part about
powering down the disks..etc...
than pull one of the disks offline
and see if it still compares...
insert a
Anyone know of any good (easy to setup) applications for doing that,
or perhaps a shell script that might do the same thing?
As a matter of fact, I have a very nice one right here. Someone mailed this to the
list back in the day when I asked this same question. It's pretty killer.
Ross
