Re: Care and feeding of RAID?

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:47:57PM -0400, Steve Cousins wrote:
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>Luca Berra wrote:
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>>On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:29:48PM -0400, Steve Cousins wrote:
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>>>Benjamin Schieder wrote:
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>>>>On 05.09.2006 11:03:45, Steve Cousins wrote:
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>>>>>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
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>>
>>nice race :)
>
>I'm not sure what you mean?

tmp="`mktemp`"
rm -f ${tmp}
touch ${tmp}

the last two lines are unneeded and can be tricked to overwrite
arbitrary filenames


>I tried smartctl -t short -d scsi /dev/sdb where /dev/sdb is a 250GB 
>SATA drive.

it is '-d ata'

>What command do you use for SATA drives?  The sourceforge page implies 
>that -d sata doesn't exist yet.  I'm using FC 5 with 2.6.17 kernel and 
>smartmontools version 5.33.  Do you have a sample configuration script 
>that you could show me?

# monitor two sata disks, show temperature in degrees,
# do a long test every sunday and a short every other day
# at 1am on sda and at 2am on sdb, YMMV
/dev/sda -d ata -a -R 194 -s (L/../../7|S/../../[123456])/01
/dev/sdb -d ata -a -R 194 -s (L/../../7|S/../../[123456])/02

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