Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261388AbUJaSnW (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:43:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261545AbUJaSnW (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:43:22 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:35802 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261388AbUJaSnT (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:43:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:43:14 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Kianusch Sayah Karadji cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Raid1 DM vs MD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 21 >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 :( Yep, happened to me too, and ever since, I refrain from using MD, but instead a good (read: my own) backup solution. It's even a little cheaper since you do not to spare a partition/harddisk of the same size you're mirroring, but can simply put the .tar.bz2 (+.acl.bz2) onto another fs. Jan Engelhardt -- Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Am Fassberg, 37077 Göttingen, www.gwdg.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/