Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261638AbUJaTef (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:34:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261640AbUJaTef (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:34:35 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:49386 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261638AbUJaTee (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:34:34 -0500 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Raid1 DM vs MD Organization: Deban GNU/Linux Homesite In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.6-20040906 ("Baleshare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.8.1 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:34:32 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 19 In article 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 - 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/