you can setup mdadm in the monitor mode and configure it to send email alerts. --- TJ Harrell <systemloc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm aiming at a very similar setup as what you're > talking about. Whether or > not you put your root on the raid is up to you. > Personally, I don't, and I > have my raid mounted as /home. Anyways, your mobo > should support two drives, > and each additional controller should support two > drives. Thus, with one > addon controller, you can have 4 drives. With 200GB > drives, that's 600GB of > space doing RAID 5. In my experience, adding more > drives to an array is > extremely easy, but it is dangerous. It is possible > to lose data even if you > do follow the steps verbatim, although I've done it > 3-4 times myself with no > trouble. First, you must use raidreconf to grow the > array onto the new disk, > then you must use resize2fs to expand the filesystem > to fill the array. > Backing up during this process is highly > recommended! > > I personally don't use a hot spare, and I haven't > had any trouble with drive > failure since I got rid of all my IBM drives. I did > have a run in with a WD > drive that needed a firmware update else it dropped > out of the array > periodically, though. A hot spare is something to > take into consideration. > Also, you might look into some sort of monitoring > script. If you don't > monitor the array, you could lose one disk and go > months without ever > knowing. Something that would email you would be > ideal. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
