Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:02:40 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: "Robin Becker" <robin@reportlab.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror HD failure detection Message-ID: <54db43990609201002x503b691fxe3b828ca81f13c5a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45116E76.6020009@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> References: <45116E76.6020009@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
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On 9/20/06, Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> wrote: > After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a about > Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if > anyone > can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent > failure > of one of the disks? Do I use something like smartctl in a cron or what? When you installed smartmontools to get smartctl, it should have also installed smartd. It will run in the background and notify you of significant changes. man smartd for details. - Bob
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