Talk:Raid

We could add a section on enabling smartd to monitor disk health
see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445
http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man8/smartd.8.php

Monitor Disk Health

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) is built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.

Method 1

Enable

config set smartd service 
config setprop smartd status enabled
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S40smartd

This will log warnings to /var/log/messages, Emails to admin on critical errors would be good.

Method 2

Create a script that will run at each re-boot, with your own options
this method just saves having to template the config file

nano -w /etc/e-smith/events/local/S40smartd
#! /bin/sh
smartd -H -m admin -M diminishing -M test

chmod +x /etc/e-smith/events/local/S40smartd