From: Paul Waldo <pwaldo@waldoware.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Care and feeding of RAID?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:39:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FDB66D.8060202@waldoware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44FD722C.7050608@waldoware.com>
Paul Waldo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a RAID6 array and I wondering about care and feeding instructions
> :-)
>
> Here is what I currently do:
> - daily incremental and weekly full backups to a separate machine
> - run smartd tests (short once a day, long once a week)
> - check the raid for bad blocks every week
>
> What else can I do make sure the array keeps humming? Thanks in advance!
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What about bitmaps? Nobody has mentioned them. It is my understanding that
you just turn them on with "mdadm /dev/mdX -b internal". Any caveats for this?
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-05 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-05 12:48 Care and feeding of RAID? Paul Waldo
2006-09-05 13:14 ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-05 16:56 ` Patrik Jonsson
2006-09-05 17:04 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 13:19 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 15:03 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 15:41 ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-05 18:29 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 20:57 ` Luca Berra
2006-09-06 7:12 ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-06 18:49 ` Luca Berra
2006-09-10 7:36 ` Benjamin Schieder
[not found] ` <44FDF08D.8000504@maine.edu>
2006-09-06 7:16 ` Luca Berra
2006-09-06 7:33 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2006-09-05 16:23 ` Mike Hardy
2006-09-05 17:02 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 17:46 ` Paul Waldo
2006-09-06 0:04 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-06 7:41 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2006-09-09 15:56 ` Nix
2006-09-05 17:09 ` Paul Waldo
2006-09-05 20:17 ` Richard Scobie
2006-09-05 17:57 ` Rev. Jeffrey Paul
2006-09-05 18:35 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 17:39 ` Paul Waldo [this message]
2006-09-09 15:58 ` Nix
2006-09-10 5:23 ` dean gaudet
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