[mythtv-users] MythTV and LVM

[Jens Peter Vilstrup]

On 01/02/2006, at 5:32, Ryan Pisani wrote:
> Jarod --
> Are you using md tools to manage your previously stated RAID-5? I'm
> curious, as I had looked into growing RAID5 and it appears that  
> mdadm will
> allow you to grow a linear array of disks.

AFAIK, a "linear" array is another word for JBOD where the disks are  
just stitched together at the edges in a manner similar to using LVM  
with multiple PVs.

In other words, a linear array isn't RAID at all and therefore the  
expandability is not applicable to RAID 5.

Jens.