[mythtv-users] Creating a RAID 0 "mythtv-optimized" volume

[Jayson Garrell]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 15:10, Steve wrote:
> I need to combine two 120GB drives to form a large, mythtv-optimized,
> filesystem and am looking for recommendations.  I'm using Mandrake 9.1
> "2.4.21-0.13mdk" on a P3-550Mhz and would be looking at a software RAID 0
> solution.
> 
> >From the research I've done, there's a set of raid tools available and also
> lvm.  Any opinions on which is better? How about recommended tuning
> parameters, like stripe size?
> 
> For a file system, I'll probably use ext3 with the options given on the
> MythTV howto, unless there are any caveats with a striped volume.

I would use LVM, since you can add more drives to the logical volume to
make it larger when it is needed. 

Jayson Garrell