[Cialug] NAS & disk drives

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On 11 Apr 2016, at 3:30, Dave Hala wrote:


> If it makes you more comfortable, buy an extra drive, put it on the
> shelf and then don't worry about until it becomes an issue.  Once a
> week do a  "cat /proc/mdstat"  to check the status of your array and
> you'll be fine.


Cron up something like this to run every hour or so:
	mdadm --monitor --oneshot --mail root --scan
which will email you a copy of /proc/mdstat if something is wrong and otherwise do nothing.

It also has a daemon mode to continuously monitor and activate spares/etc. if you have a configuration where that is useful.

	Zach
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