On 09/10/2012 02:52 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
> On 09/10/2012 10:05 AM, Jeff Siddall wrote:
>> ME software RAID1 is very reliable
>
> Have you had a software RAID failure? What was the alert?
> And, what did you have to do to repair it?

Never had a "software" failure.  I have had [too] many hardware 
failures, and those show up with the standard MD email alerts (example 
attached below).

Jeff

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This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm

A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md1.

Faithfully yours, etc.

P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md3 : active raid1 sda5[0]
       371727936 blocks [2/1] [U_]

md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
       104320 blocks [2/1] [U_]

md2 : active raid1 sda3[0]
       2096384 blocks [2/1] [U_]

md1 : active raid1 sda2[0]
       16779776 blocks [2/1] [U_]

unused devices: <none>