Re: Raid1 DM vs MD

From: Bernd Eckenfels (ecki-news2004-05_at_lina.inka.de)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date:	Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:34:32 +0100
    
    

    In article <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410311902300.1819@merlin.sk-tech.net> you wrote:
    > I had one MD-Raid1 where a good copy of the mirror was overwritten by the
    > bad (old) copy ... I lost 3 Month worth of data and I am expecting loosing
    > a linux project and in the worst case - even a court case :(

    This is the expected behaviour in your situation.

    I mean, if you dont do backup for month something has to go wrong :)

    But more seriouly, when did that overwrite happen? After reboot or have you
    changed media? Was the data lost because of corruption or because the old
    copy did not contained the data?

    Bernd
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