Re: How to detect / notify when a raid drive fails?

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On Thu, Nov 26, 2015, at 09:30 PM, Duncan wrote:
> What generally happens now, however, is that the btrfs will note failures 
> attempting to write the device and start queuing up writes.  If the 
> device reappears fast enough, btrfs will flush the queue and be back to 
> normal.  Otherwise, you pretty much need to reboot and mount degraded, 
> then add a device and rebalance. (btrfs device delete missing broke some 
> versions ago and just got fixed by the latest btrfs-progs-4.3.1, IIRC.)
> 
> As for alerts, you'd see the pile of accumulating write errors in the 
> kernel log.  Presumably you can write up a script that can alert on that 
> and mail you the log or whatever, but I don't believe there's anything 
> official or close to it, yet.

Great info, thanks. Just trying to write a file, sync and read it
sounds like the easiest test for now, especially since I don't
know what the write fail log entries will look like. And setting
up SMART notifications.

- Ian
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