use raid1 with spare disks or write-mostly disks increase your disks redundancy 2011/2/16 Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all, > > I'm setting up a new laptop that my dad bought as a present for my > mom. One interesting aspect of this laptop is that it has two 500GB > hard drives in it so I was going to use RAID1. As the laptop will be > at a location that I won't often visit I wanted to set up some sort of > on-going daily/weekly testing of the RAID that the machine could email > the results to me. > > Is there a document somewhere that goes over what mdadm (or other > tools) provide in this area? I assume I'll use smartctl as part of the > solution but what else can I do to reduce the chances of something > getting overlooked? > > Thanks, > Mark > -- > 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 > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- 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
