From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mircea Ciocan Subject: Re: Please help with a special RAID 1 setup Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 17:33:53 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FFC26E1.8040706@interplus.ro> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: "Cress, Andrew R" Cc: Catalin BOIE , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Cress, Andrew R wrote: >Note that RAID-1 will only ever have a maximum of 2 active disks. >When you add the 3rd disk, it is added to the array as a spare, that's >why it doesn't rebuild. > >Andy > > Ouch, so is there really no posibility to obtain somehow what I explained in the previous mail ( a cvasi-realtime filesystem backup by attaching and detaching a device) :((( Please tell me that there is a posibility, my world is shattered ;) Mircea