On 18 August 2010 17:53, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:

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


> If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
>
>
AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?