I don't think Dell makes raid utils for FreeBSD, but i'll look.
Controlled downtime is better than uncontrolled imo, and of course no down
time is better. :)
Gavin
>> I'm at the data center and noticed the error light is
>> blinking on the 2nd drive in the RAID array. I should
>> probably take it down and run the raid tool to see what's up
>> with it. Just wanted to get a quick response as to what the
>> implications of doing so are.
>
> Uh, you can do that without taking it offline, right?
>
> If it goes offline, we lose wwwmaster.postgresql.org. Which pretty much
> means that anybody hitting download links on our website will get a
> timeout until it's back up.
>
> //Magnus
>