From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 16:39:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF6816A47E for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:39:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59FA443E4D for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:37:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: (qmail 82867 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2006 16:37:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 20 Sep 2006 16:37:25 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.196.247.135 Message-ID: <45116E76.6020009@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:38:14 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: gmirror HD failure detection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:39:14 -0000 After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a about Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent failure of one of the disks? Do I use something like smartctl in a cron or what? -- Robin Becker