gentoo sata raid

Il turisto · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:05 am Post subject: gentoo sata raid

Hello my question is not very complicated.

First I'm sorry for my poor english.

I have a server with 2sata hdd in raid 1.

My question is :

How can i know if a hdd is dead? There is some software that can verify this an send us a mail or ohter things like that?

Thanks for help.

Gherald · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:11 am Post subject:

if it is a software raid, you can use mdadm as a monitoring daemon, and "cat /proc/mdstat" shows the status from a console

Il turisto · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:28 am Post subject:

and if it is an hardware raid?

Il turisto · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:46 am Post subject:

no one can help me?

Gherald · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

linux + hardware raids = tedious, boring, and just plain not worth it unless you are some huge datastore company with a gigantic raid 5

Try an md software raid next time.

Il turisto · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 8:20 am Post subject:

it's not a problem because the server is not installed yet.

But i don't know anithing about software raid.

Can you tell the name of the soft to use plz?

mdadm for monitoring
??? for installing

...???

edit : here I have 2 hdd in my server and i think the best is raid1 for secutity. Are you agree with that?

Gherald · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 8:44 am Post subject:

Il turisto · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:20 am Post subject:

A sorry I have forgotten this important thing.

The server will be a webserver and wa wan't to reduce the risk to have a downtime.

It's for this reason that we wan't to use raid.

Gherald · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

Il turisto · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:34 am Post subject:

I agree with you.

Backups are a thing that a cron will do for me :-)

.

Il turisto · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:11 am Post subject:

I have forgotten an other things :

A big thanks for your help.