Hi, 2007/9/18, harland christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To me, it looks like HDA and HDC are in good health > and configured properly ... but what do I really know. > > Can someone tell me how I can really know if my > configuration is working? Is it REALLY this simple?
Disclaimer - read the manpage again before doing that! # mdadm --detail --scan # cat /proc/mdstat # mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/hdc # mdadm --detail --scan # cat /proc/mdstat # mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/hdc # dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/testFile bs=1M count=100 # cat /proc/mdstat # mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/hdc # cat /proc/mdstat do that to see what happens if a drive fails and is replaced. of course if you are somewhat confident that your raid work (and boots from any drive) you can also: * fail a drive and reboot * fail a drive and remove it from the RAID, then reboot /proc/mdstat will always tell you... hth martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
