Jack Coates wrote: > dean blackketter wrote: > >> My experience with raid5 was a bad one. I had one drive fail on my >> linux server and didn't get notified for a long time. Then when I >> went to add another drive and rebuild, another (of the same vintage) >> went out. >> >> Now, I'm not 100% sure that it wasn't my fumbly fingers that did >> something to corrupt the drives during reconstruction, but it was a >> lesson learned. > > > probably no mistake. One of the most common Nagios monitors I've > provided for people is a Linux software RAID monitor. Naturally I > haven't kept a copy, but it's pretty simple, just awk /proc/mdstat and > alert if the number of good drives changes.
mdadm has a monitor mode that does what it says on the can - monitors md devices. Indeed, Redhat/Fedora comes with a service (mdmonitor) that uses mdadm --monitor to do just that. R. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
