[email protected] (Trent W. Buck) writes: > Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:03:54PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: >>> I read this as "it didn't email me about its degraded state, so if it >>> was racked, I'd never have known until it was too late" :-) >> >> why would i want a filesystem driver to have email capabilities? >> >> it's not zfs' job to email me, any more than it is ext4's job. >> >> problem notifications are better handled by some monitoring daemon - >> nagios or icinga, for example. > > Erm, mdadm emails me when a RAID array fails. I didn't have to write my > own script, because that's something everybody running an array should > want (more or less). If I had migrated from md to zfs, I'd have been > bitten by that. A mismatch of expectations, I guess.
PS: I'd accept it freaking out to syslog(3) instead of sendmail(8), since reading the logfiles is something I expect a server's babysitter to do at least daily (cf. checking for a degraded array). _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
