Richard.

Thanks for the pointer, I shall look at that.  

I am still interested to know what the errors file provides a count of.


Simon.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Scobie [mailto:richard@sauce.co.nz] 
Sent: 27 May 2009 20:35
To: Simon Jackson
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FW: Detecting errors on the RAID disks.

Simon Jackson wrote:

I have been looking for a way of detecting whether disks used in RAID

sets have had errors that might indicate the drive is failing..  

smartd, while not foolproof, offers some assistence here:

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

Richard