Ross Vandegrift wrote: >On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:07:36AM +1100, James Neale wrote: > > >>Hi Ross >>I'm a bit of a mdadm newb and have been wrangling with -monitor rather >>unsucccessfully. >>Currently I'm manually checking /proc/mdstat until I've sorted out >>something better. >>I'm running a single 1TB raid5 on 6 disks (one is spare) which has been >>smooth so far. >>Any pointers or examples for that reliable noisy mailing beeping script >>of yours in /etc/bashrc >> >> > >The blob is below, just stick it in your bashrc. My idea was that >everytime I spawn a shell (which is a lot!), mdstat gets checked. > >What issues are you having with --monitor? It should be pretty >automatic if you let it scan. I just run something like this: > >/sbin/mdadm -F -s -f -y > >This stats mdadm in --monitor mode, scans for devices, daemonizes, and >records its results in syslog. > >Here's what runs in my bashrc: > ># Scream and cry a lot if the RAID looks weird! >if /bin/grep _ /proc/mdstat; then > for ((scream = 0; scream < 5; scream ++)); do > echo -e "POSSIBLE PROBLEM WITH RAID" > sleep 0.1 > done > cat /proc/mdstat >fi > > > Have a look at monit And festival
Quite a cool combination.... David -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
