Keith Roberts wrote:
Reading the documentation for smartmontools I got the impression that it cannot work with RAID controllers, apart from 3ware and some Highpoint. Maybe I'm getting mixed up with hardware raid?
Hardware controllers are a different story, (you can add to LSI to the above). There are no problems with md RAID.
So is it safe to use all features of smartmontools, including running tests, on a Linux software RAID1 array?
No problems at all that I am aware of. I run smartd and perform long self checks weekly on all drives I have in live RAID 1 and 5 arrays.
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