mdadm in 2018 ??
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It's easy enough to go in Cockpit, select a few of your non-os disks & create a RAID array of your choice.
It would seem to me, there should be some easy to use utility that would alert you about drive failure (via email) & also include the failed drives serial #.
Auto-rebuild should be automatic once I swap out the failed drive.All the FOSS fan boi's say everything is easier in Linux vs Windows.
Can someone please direct me to any such utility?
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Mdadm is very easy to use, can you explain what difficulty you're encountering?
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Also, just because Linux often does things better than windows, windows doesn't really have anything like software raid.
FakeRAID all day long. StorageSpaces is still a bit too new to really trust but would at least warrant investigating.
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@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
Mdadm is very easy to use, can you explain what difficulty you're encountering?
@DustinB3403 You really should read my post before replying!
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@fateknollogee said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
Mdadm is very easy to use, can you explain what difficulty you're encountering?
@DustinB3403 You really should read my post before replying!
I did, thoroughly. . .
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@fateknollogee said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
It's easy enough to go in Cockpit, select a few of your non-os disks & create a RAID array of your choice.
It would seem to me, there should be some easy to use utility that would alert you about drive failure (via email) & also include the failed drives serial #.
Auto-rebuild should be automatic once I swap out the failed drive.All the FOSS fan boi's say everything is easier in Linux vs Windows.
Can someone please direct me to any such utility?
Again, I repeat, it must be easy to use!!The CLI is a utility that is easy to use...
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@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
The CLI is a utility that is easy to use...
The CLI does all this..."alert you about drive failure (via email) & also include the failed drives serial #.
Auto-rebuild should be automatic once I swap out the failed drive."? -
@fateknollogee it can, yes I had this setup at my last job.
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@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
@fateknollogee it can, yes I had this setup at my last job.
Pls share!
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But software raid isn't designed for small uses cases, not like hardware raid is.
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For the email alerts..
https://dustymabe.com/2012/01/29/monitor-raid-arrays-and-get-e-mail-alerts-using-mdadm/
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@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
But software raid isn't designed for small uses cases, not like hardware raid is.
I never once mentioned anything about use case?
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@fateknollogee said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
But software raid isn't designed for small uses cases, not like hardware raid is.
I never once mentioned anything about use case?
I never said you did, but was putting an assumption out there.
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@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
For the email alerts..
https://dustymabe.com/2012/01/29/monitor-raid-arrays-and-get-e-mail-alerts-using-mdadm/
Thanks for the 1st link.
Failed drive serial # ?
Auto rebuild upon swap ?Is this the setup you used on your last job?
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@fateknollogee said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
For the email alerts..
https://dustymabe.com/2012/01/29/monitor-raid-arrays-and-get-e-mail-alerts-using-mdadm/
Thanks for the 1st link.
Failed drive serial # ?
Auto rebuild upon swap ?Is this the setup you used on your last job?
That is just one of many articles, iirc it was at least one that I reviewed.
The rebuild portion was a pain in the ass, as the system I had at the time didn't have hot swap, so I had to power down to replace disks.
It's possible but just a huge pain.
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@dustinb3403 How about the failed drive serial # alerting, you did have that at your last job?
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@fateknollogee said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
@dustinb3403 How about the failed drive serial # alerting, you did have that at your last job?
I had it email the UUID of the disks.
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I also had smartctl setup on my xs6.5 hosts at the time and looked with that.
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@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
The rebuild portion was a pain in the ass, as the system I had at the time didn't have hot swap, so I had to power down to replace disks.
It's possible but just a huge pain.
You did not have auto-rebuild?
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@dustinb3403 said in mdadm in 2018 ??:
I had it email the UUID of the disks.
Pls share, even though UUID is not the same as serial number.
