On Tue, 25 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:11:58PM +0800, Aldwin Ibunz wrote: > > > > question about raid mirroring.. suppose i have 2 hdd mirrored and the > > 1st disk suffered from corruption of file allocation table or hdd > > malfunction.. what effect would that do to the mirror hdd?.. is it ok to > > use software raid? > > If one disk has filesystem corruption, then the RAID subsystem will > duplicate the corruption on its mirror disk. If one of the RAIDed disks > fails, then you still have the data on the other disk. Please remember > that RAID is not intended to protect you from data corruption, but from > hardware failure.
What you can do, in the case of RAID 1 mirroring is regularly hot swap the second drive out with another one, thus creating a snapshot backup of your data. Any good hardware raid controller will one way or another resync the newly installed hard drive with the first drive. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
