[mythtv-users] INFO: RAID comparison for MythTV

[Kevin Kuphal]

Allan Stirling wrote:

>
> As another hint - Start your RAID small and grow it. Buying your disks 
> all at once means that they'll all tend to fail at once - Which is not 
> a good thing. Unfortunately, there's no easy, reliable way I've found 
> to extend a RAID without backing up (somewhere really huge :) and 
> restoring.
>
According to their pages, evms.sourceforge.net says it can do RAID 5 
grow/shrink on Linux

http://evms.sourceforge.net/

Kevin