just had raid5 installed on my servers..
 

so how do you check if raid5 is actualy working properly on your servers ?

I just bought a new car.
How do you start this dam thing ?

:)
is it a software raid or hardware raid ?
for hardware raid there should be a tool from the manufacturer that
tells you the state of your raid.
If its software, I doubt, what was used to create it.

has anyone heard about that big ass search engine that makes millions of dollars by letting people find answers to stupid questions??

google??

why have raid 5 if you do not know how to use it?

hehe sorry had to burn you

other than that the answer darksoul gave you is very accurate.

:1orglaugh

you mean "THE " google .... :upsidedow

It is very hard to install/setup RAID5 on a working server.

In my experience its really only possible during the setup part.

Sounds like something fishy is going on - the easiest way to check is do:

dmesg | grep -i raid

It should show something like:

scsi0 : LSI Logic MegaRAID driver
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 0 [Phy 0] for non-raid devices
Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD 0 RAID1 69G Rev: 516A

This is a RAID1 (mirror) system

slap me in the head

you are right THE GOOGLE :)

Just pull a drive out and see what happens thats how I test mine :)

sounds like a good method! :thumbsup