On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:47:50AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> You want to be running "mdadm --monitor". You really really do!
> Anyone out there who is listening: if you have any md/raid arrays
> (other than linear/raid0) and are not running "mdadm --monitor",
> please do so. Now.
> Also run "mdadm --monitor --oneshot --scan" (or similar) from a
> nightly cron job, so it will nag you about degraded arrays.
So very, very true - I was bitten by that bit of stupidity a few weeks
ago. I also have a script in my /etc/bashrc that looks for any
degraded arrays in /proc/mdstat. If it finds them it prints obnoxious
messages, beeps, and dumps out mdstat for instant examination.
Neil - did you get a chance to look at the syslog and text
messaging patches I posted?
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man in the bonds of Hell."
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