# How Two File Systems Simultaneously Wrote to a RAID Disk and Caused Data Loss

DevFeed: [How Two File Systems Simultaneously Wrote to a RAID Disk and Caused Data Loss](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/spectacular-file-system-confusion-30124.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://www.netmeister.org/blog/spectacular-file-system-confusion.html>)

Published: 2012-09-23T19:08:42Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Signs of Triviality](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signs-of-triviality.md>)

Topics: [Filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/filesystems.md>), [RAID](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/raid.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [raid](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/raid.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of two file systems simultaneously writing data to a RAID disk, resulting in data loss.

## Source excerpt

How I had two file systems simultaneously write data to a RAID disk... and lost.