*All this discussion about raid levels and what not has brought to my mind a different, if related, question. One of the reasons I like software raid is that it's easy to monitor. For example, I could have a cron script that runs once every 15 minutes for example and checks the status of the /proc/mdstat file to ensure any raid(s) listed show status of Healthy. But how do you do something like that for a Hardware raid? How can you tell, for example, if drive #3 in a HW raid10 has failed? This is something I honestly don't know off my head. I know many of you folks have had experience with HW raid and device failures in that array. How do you know? There's no file you can check like mdstat is there? I'd think this would be especially important for remote hosted/co-located servers.*
* * *If someone could soothe my curiosity on this, I'd appreciate it!* * * *--- Dan* /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
