From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question: how to identify failing disk in a RAID1
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:01:25 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48157645.7090309@sauce.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804280625160.16431@www.karsites.net>
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.
Regards,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 19:14 Question: how to identify failing disk in a RAID1 Maurice Hilarius
2008-04-13 19:29 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-04-14 1:14 ` Bill Davidsen
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2008-04-14 16:38 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <4804CD4F.7080303@harddata.com>
2008-04-15 18:14 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <48050DD6.7020404@harddata.com>
[not found] ` <48055EFA.8060505@tmr.com>
[not found] ` <480607F2.3060504@harddata.com>
2008-04-17 13:12 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <48076096.2020804@harddata.com>
2008-04-18 13:17 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <480F7105.9030405@harddata.com>
2008-04-23 18:54 ` Justin Piszcz
[not found] ` <480F8830.6020207@harddata.com>
2008-04-23 19:26 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-04-27 17:03 ` Keith Roberts
2008-04-27 19:28 ` Richard Scobie
2008-04-28 5:29 ` Keith Roberts
2008-04-28 6:06 ` Michael Tokarev
2008-04-28 7:01 ` Richard Scobie [this message]
2008-04-27 21:53 ` Mark Hahn
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2008-04-18 17:36 David Lethe
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