[mythtv-users] mythtv hardware plans

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On 4 Feb 2007, at 02:57, Brian Schott wrote:
>> ...
>> - SATA ~400GB+ hard drive
>>   I will likely add more storage down the road at some point. I tend
>> to be a hoarder :)
>
> ...
> This might draw some flames, but instead of hardware RAID,I'd
> recommend you use LVM to create a concatenated partition across
> multiple drives ...
> You can add drives later and grow the filesystem

Mind if I ask why you suggest this rather than the new storage groups  
feature within Myth?

LVM is very useful for allowing the o/s & applications to see a  
number of drives as a single mount-point / directory, but a failed  
drive can surely h0se all of the recordings on all of the drives. As  
I understand it "storage groups" allows Myth to use several  
directories for storing its files, and the failure of one drive  
leaves recordings on the others unaffected. Basically, as I  
understand it, "storage groups" is a more "Mythy" way of using  
multiple drives in a non-redundant way (I am not so retentive as to  
regard my TV recordings as important enough to justify RAID) than LVM.

> I've got 1.6TB (I just tell my girlfriend that hard drives are like  
> shoes :-)!

LOL!

Stroller.