Verifying software RAID performance

[Dan Lund]

My /proc/mdstat says the following (for my raid1 array):

Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdc1[1]
      102208 blocks [2/2] [UU]

That's a good example of how the /proc/mdstat "file" will look.

--Dan

On 3/7/07, Daniel Parraz <daniyel95 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The most common command to check the status is:
>
> cat /proc/mdstat
>
> This shows the personality of the raid device(0,1,5), and the status of the
> disk's in the brackets, if they are up, or one has failed. I think 'U' for
> each disk means it's up and running.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have a box available right now to SSH into to give
> you the break down of the info you will see running that command. The
> Oreilly book referred to from Eric is in my bookshelf, but I rarely use it
> since I can do software raid 1 in my sleep now, but haven't messed with sw
> raid 5 enough to give that book away.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Daniel Parraz
>
>

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