From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 20:10:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8928316A401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from mail.digitalfreaks.org (arbitor.digitalfreaks.org [216.151.95.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618C413C461 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digitalfreaks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8DEC17F0E; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:10:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.digitalfreaks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.digitalfreaks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16648-15; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:10:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.digitalfreaks.org (mail.digitalfreaks.org [216.151.95.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digitalfreaks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8B517F03; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:10:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:10:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" X-X-Sender: lavalamp@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org To: Ivan Carey In-Reply-To: <000101c5929c$73643e30$0201a8c0@IVAN> Message-ID: <20070214150908.U59589@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: <000101c5929c$73643e30$0201a8c0@IVAN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does gmirror know of a faulty drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:10:37 -0000 No answers? I just actually replied to a thread about this. Apparently there is no automatic demotion of a device to DEGRADED. I just had a provider error for a good 5 minutes of SCSI kernel messages (bad sectors, grown defects), without any automatic corrective action taken by gmirror(4) My original message was held of moderation. ~BAS On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Ivan Carey wrote: > In FreeBSD 5.3 I have set up 2 drives in RAID-1 format. > How will I know if one of the drives is faulty such as either not working or > > has some lost sectors? > > Is it possible to have gmirror email me if there is a problem? > > Thanks, > Ivan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota" meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages of laser printout - and frequently were."