[Discuss] Monitoring RAID

[Steven Kurylo]

> The documentation seemed to indicate that using
> mdadm to monitor may not be the best solution.
> I'm not exactly sure how mature mdadm is. There
> doesn't appear to be any indication, other than
> a version number which could mean anything.

The only documentation I've seen claiming this has been quite old.
Personally I haven't had any issues.

> As far as I know raidtools is more mature, but
> no monitoring daemon is available with that package.
>
> I used raidtools to build the sets.

I don't know about redhat and similar, but I know debian doesn't even
offer raidtools anymore.

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Steven Kurylo