On 2013-11-04, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Make sure you also have a "check" scrub in a cron job for everything > greater than raid0. (Interval can vary--I use weekly.) And follow up > on the cron job with a report of all mismatch-cnt values. RHEL/CentOS already has a script which does this; IIRC it emails root if mismatch_cnt is nonzero after the check is complete. > For large capacities with consumer drives (~8TB or more, IMHO), you > should seriously consider raid6. I'm assuming you mean arrays larger than 8TB, not individual drives! :) I have had a second drive fail in a large array after the first one failed and a rebuild started, so this isn't just a theoretical discussion. --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
