Re: Care and feeding of RAID?

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:29:48PM -0400, Steve Cousins wrote:
>
>
>Benjamin Schieder wrote:
>>On 05.09.2006 11:03:45, Steve Cousins wrote:
>>
>>>Would people be willing to list their setup? Including such things as 
>>>mdadm.conf file, crontab -l, plus scripts that they use to check the 
>>>smart data and the array, mdadm daemon parameters and anything else that 
>>>is relevant to checking and maintaining an array? 
>>
>>
>>Personally, I use this script from cron:
>>http://shellscripts.org/project/hdtest

nice race :)

>I am checking this out and I see that you are the writer of this script.
>I'm getting errors when it comes to lines 76 and 86-90 about the 
>arithmetic symbols. This is on a Fedora Core 5 system with bash version 
that is because smartctl output has changed and the grep above returns
no number.

>3.1.7(1).   I weeded out the smartctl command and tried it manually with 
>no luck on my SATA /dev/sd? drives.

which command?

>What do you (or others) recommend for SATA drives?

smartmontools and a recent kernel just work.
also you can schedule smart tests with smartmontools. so you don't need
to cron scripts.

L.

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