[mythtv-users] Large Drive setup for myth

Antoine Busch antoine.busch at gmail.com
Mon Sep 11 19:30:20 UTC 2006


On 9/11/06, jack snodgrass <mrlinuxgroups at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got burned a couple of times with software raid
> and now I'm a bit concerned with 'virtual' drives.
> My software raid mirrored ( perfectly ) my corrupted
> file system. Instead of one bad / corrupted file system,
> I had several raid drive copies of it. ;( They mirror
> part did work....

That's because RAID has *nothing* to do with recovering from file
system corruptions. It helps with keeping a filesystem accessible
while changing a disk, or improving throughput, etc... but does not in
any way replace backups.


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