On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 13:29 +0100, Chris G wrote:
The trouble then is that you don't know that half your fault-tolerant RAID array is dead until the other half dies as well, the fault toleration may mask the underlying failures.
Erm I do, as soon as the array status changes it will mail me. This is just a standard function of mdadm.
Please tell if there are any raid systems around that when properly configured don't send some sort of notification when a device goes offline so that I can avoid them. :)