[mythtv-users] Anyone using LVM2 w/ ext3 for video storage

[Dan Christensen]

David pointed out that if you run lvm without RAID, you actually
increase the risk of losing data, since if any one drive fails, you
probably lose everything (or at least have to do some hard recovery
work).

Because of this, I've sometimes wondered if myth should allow multiple
directories to be used for storing recordings.  You make one partition
on each drive you have, and tell myth the list of partitions.  When
starting a recording it chooses one of the directories.  If one of
the directories goes away, you just lose those recordings, but can
keep on using the rest in the meantime.

(And the database could be on a raid-5 filesystem so it survives
no matter which drive fails.)

I personally use raid-5 even for my recordings, since disks are cheap
and time is expensive, so I don't need the above feature, but I'm
throwing it out in case anyone else likes the idea.

Dan