On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:47:50AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > You want to be running "mdadm --monitor". You really really do! > Anyone out there who is listening: if you have any md/raid arrays > (other than linear/raid0) and are not running "mdadm --monitor", > please do so. Now. > Also run "mdadm --monitor --oneshot --scan" (or similar) from a > nightly cron job, so it will nag you about degraded arrays. So very, very true - I was bitten by that bit of stupidity a few weeks ago. I also have a script in my /etc/bashrc that looks for any degraded arrays in /proc/mdstat. If it finds them it prints obnoxious messages, beeps, and dumps out mdstat for instant examination. Neil - did you get a chance to look at the syslog and text messaging patches I posted? -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 - 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
