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On 08/18/2010 04:53 AM, Nganon wrote: |
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> I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a |
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> notebook |
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> with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup |
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> destination. So if RAID got corruped, the backups, made since then, |
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> would be |
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> useless? How would you resolve it? |
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The ONLY thing RAID will save you from is hardware failure. |
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Copying data from one disk to another is not RAID. If you use dd to copy |
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from one corrupt filesystem to another, you have two corrupt filesystems. |
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If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS. |
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