[mythtv] mutliple storage directories idea... ?
    Kevin Kuphal 
    kuphal at dls.net
       
    Tue Nov  1 11:47:31 EST 2005
    
    
  
Derek Atkins wrote:
>Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> writes:
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>>yea, this script was brought up, but it seems like a cleaner fix would be to 
>>support mutliple directories directly. there have also been recent issues 
>>with symlinked files and deleting shows.
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>>From a user perspective, LVM's are a tad tricky to safely and properly 
>>implement and don't allow for very good backup(or at least I've been told). 
>>
>>I don't know how difficult it would be to include multiple directories to the 
>>backend, I think it should at least be given some more consideration.
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>LVM does not work across multiple server machines.  I could
>certainly posit wanting to use the 200G drives from 5 different
>servers and NFS mounting them.  You can't combine them with
>LVM.
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I wonder if you could use iSCSI to share the drives from multiple 
servers and combine them with LVM
Kevin
    
    
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