On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:56:37 +0100 Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Activating the same md raid on more than one node will destroy your > data, is the gist of it. No. Happened to me multiple times and I still have all the data. It's not much of a problem if two machines are syncing the same mirror as long as it is not mounted on any. Once you have the mirror mounted on one of them, who knows what happens to the write you've just commited. I don't know what happens on raid5 tho ... -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html