[mythtv-users] MythTV and LVM

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/2/06, Jens Peter Vilstrup <yonzie.myth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

but the mdadm devs are working on growing RAID5, which will obviously
take a long time to move data around, but hopefully they'll get it
working and stable.

--
Steve