[mythtv-users] NAS RAID 5 for MythTv

[Kevin Kuphal]

James Oltman wrote:
>
>
> On 2/6/07, *Kevin Kuphal* <kuphal at dls.net <mailto:kuphal at dls.net>> wrote:
>
>     Jeffery Swan wrote:
>     > Does anyone know... can I use LVM over multiple NAS so that it
>     all looks like a big /multimedia drive? I'll have to do some more
>     experimenting when I get
>     > another NAS up and running.
>     >
>     Yes, but why?  LVM is notoriously sensitive if a drive were to
>     "disappear" such as a network problem would give, etc. The SVN version
>     of Myth now supports multiple recording storage directories so
>     there is
>     no need to plan for a giant multimedia drive when it comes to
>     recordings.
>
>     Kevin
>
>
>
> He might want it for the sole purpose of not splitting up his large 
> Videos directory.  I know if I ever get some money, it's going into 
> RAID 5 storage so I can have a large 5 TB array for all my DVDs and 
> other videos.  I hate that I used to get 3 different folders in 
> MythVideo for my 3 shares.  Right now I have an LVM'd 1TB array ( I 
> know VERY dangerous, but it's not like I can't get all that data 
> back).  All my vids are on that array and I'm quite happy.
>
MythVideo has supported a comma (or maybe it's semi-colon) delimited 
list of video directories for quite some time.

Kevin