trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:03:54PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
I read this as "it didn't email me about its degraded state, so if it was racked, I'd never have known until it was too late" :-)
why would i want a filesystem driver to have email capabilities?
it's not zfs' job to email me, any more than it is ext4's job.
problem notifications are better handled by some monitoring daemon - nagios or icinga, for example.
Erm, mdadm emails me when a RAID array fails. I didn't have to write my own script, because that's something everybody running an array should want (more or less). If I had migrated from md to zfs, I'd have been bitten by that. A mismatch of expectations, I guess.
PS: I'd accept it freaking out to syslog(3) instead of sendmail(8), since reading the logfiles is something I expect a server's babysitter to do at least daily (cf. checking for a degraded array).