Russell Coker <[email protected]> writes:

twb> I read this as "it didn't email me about its degraded state, so if it
twb> was racked, I'd never have known until it was too late" :-)
twb> [...]
twb> Erm, mdadm emails me when a RAID array fails.  I didn't have to write my
twb> own script, because that's something everybody running an array should
twb> want (more or less).  If I had migrated from md to zfs, I'd have been
twb> bitten by that.  A mismatch of expectations, I guess.

> http://bugs.debian.org/658701
>
> Unfortunately mdadm doesn't necessarily email you about problems.

The original discussion was about degraded arrays, which AFAIK mdadm
always tries to email me about.  That appears to be about sum
mismatches, which I readily agree mdadm is crap at.

> Although in the case of RAID-1 a scrub seems to always report problems
> even when nothing is wrong so this is often an issue of a false alarm.

I noticed this too, under Ubuntu 10.04 / 2.6.32.  We thought it was the
swap partitions, so we removed them but the problem remained.  IIRC we
never resolved it, so we just ignore the mismatch warnings we get from
the monthly check.

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