[mythtv-users] Using media stored on multiple drives withoutLVM?

[Kevin Hulse]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 04:42:44PM -0700, Brett Kosinski wrote:
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> The problem, really, is that if you want to scale a single filesystem, you
> need LVM.  And to make LVM safe, AFAIK, you have to build it over some
> redundancy layer (though, I'm no LVM expert).  RAID is the most obvious way
> to do this, and RAID-1 is the simplest way to build this redundancy.
> 
> If you don't care about growth, RAID-5 gives you better storage efficiency,
> but of course, once it's built, that's it.  It also requires at least 3

	No. The whole point of an LVM is so that you can grow it later.

	Add another physical device in future (or a pair of them) and add
that storage to your current lv.

> drives, so case size is still an issue.

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