Do I have a RAID running?

devawpz

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I was running VMs and having some trouble choosing the storage, because whenever I chose a storage volume, it seemed the files remained in the other volume. I've moved the VM to local (another location), and touched this test file in the directory to see if it behaved the same in the directories:

Code:
root@host:~# tree /mnt/sdb/images
/mnt/sdb/images
└── 100
    └── test

1 directory, 1 file
root@host:~# tree /mnt/sdd/images
/mnt/sdd/images
└── 100
    └── test

1 directory, 1 file
root@host:~# rm /mnt/sdb/images/100/test
root@host:~# tree /mnt/sdb/images
/mnt/sdb/images
└── 100

1 directory, 0 files
root@host:~# tree /mnt/sdd/images
/mnt/sdd/images
└── 100

1 directory, 0 files
root@host:~#



Wow. Deleted the file in one place, and it got deleted on the other.

Am I running some kind of RAID without knowing it? Because there's a possibility a RAID would have been configured in this machine. Or is this some sort of Proxmox feature? I may have inadvertently turned something on, like some kind of replication. But I don't know how to begin to look into it. Sorry about the ignorance, any help would be much appreciated.
 
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hi,

do you see any devices like /dev/md[N] when you run fdisk -l ?
 

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