mdadm / raid

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com]

I set up a software raid system using mdadm rather than raidtools.  I'm
not particularly facile with either toolset, so I decided to be
progressive.

So here's my stupid question.  I now have two nice new Dell PowerEdge
2650's running software raid using mdadm.  How do I tell, short of
popping a disk out, that all is well and good?  I have in fact popped
disks out.  That's how I cloned the second machine.  But this is not
what I want to do when the machines are in full production.

`mdadm -D` seems to be the ticket, but I'm not entirely sure how to
interpret the output.  E.g. does "State : dirty, no errors" mean all is
well in the world?

Considering the brutality with which I'm treating these arrays, linux
software raid appears remarkably robust..

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Ron Peterson                   -o)
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