[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).

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