On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Dmitry Pushkarev wrote: > Recently I have had a number of drive failures that slowed down processes a > lot until they were discovered. It is there any easy way or tool, to check > HDD performance and see if there any IO errors? > > Currently I wrote a simple script that looks at /var/log/messages and greps > everything abnormal for /dev/sdaX. But if you have better solution I'd > appreciate if you share it.
If you have any hardware RAIDs you'd like to monitor/manage, good chances that you'd want to use Einarc to access them: http://www.inquisitor.ru/doc/einarc/ - in fact, it won't hurt even if you use just a bunch of HDDs or software RAIDs :) -- WBR, Mikhail Yakshin
