On 2003-10-05T02:26:02, Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus@users.sourceforge.net> said: > When mounting /dev/hda2 it succeeds. The question is - > does mounting part of raid1 mirror when raid is still running > do anything bad for a raid? How raid works in this situation - > is it still mirroring info from /dev/hda2 to /dev/hdb2? > If I raidstop and raidstart, can it damage filesystem? Yes. Your data is toast. You need to trigger a full resync from hda2 to hdb2 manually. I think mdadm /dev/md0 -f /dev/hdb2 -r /dev/hdb2 -a /dev/hdb2 should do it. You must NEVER modify an underlaying device of a raid set. This will cause problems. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de> -- High Availability & Clustering ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SuSE Labs try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG -- Samuel Beckett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html