[mythtv-users] Re: LVM and a new hard drive

[C. R. Oldham]

> I know a lot of folks here use LVM but you might want to 
> reconsider it. For me, one of ther biggest problems is that 
> if one of the drives fails in an LVM, you stand a pretty good 
> chance of losing everything in the volume.

I don't think I would ever run an LVM setup without RAID underneath, for
that very reason.

Might want to check out http://evms.sourceforge.net/ -- EVMS is the
Enterprise Volume Management System for Linux, it purports to make
configuring and managing RAID and LVM/LVM2 a lot easier.

--cro