[CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID
Dianne Yumul
dianne at wellsgaming.com
Thu May 28 20:41:49 UTC 2009
On May 28, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> If you feel you must test the functionality of the ability of the
> RAID1
> to recover from a failed drive, the power down, remove drive, boot,
> power down, replace drive, boot process will test the ability of the
> system to re-sync the drives. A more rigorous test would be to
> zero out
> the partition table of the removed drive, or to use a new blank
> drive to
> test the recovery; however, what I think Karanbir meant by "silly" is
> that all these tests simply confirm that the RAID is working as
> designed. If it doesn't, then you should have bought different
> hardware
> to start with.
Thanks Phil for the clarification, felt like the light bulb suddenly
turned on in my head. I should be more concerned at monitoring the
health of the hard drives then.
dianne
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