[mythtv-users] EXT3 on Software RAID5 optimization

[John Drescher]

> I'm not going to bother with LVM as I understand MythTV can be
> configured with multiple locations for the video files. When I fill up
> this first array, I'll just add a second and let MythTV know about it.
>
LVM is good as long as every PV you have in the LVM is a raid 1 or
higher. This is the only way I use LVM at home and at work. If not and
you have more than 1 PV it ends up being just a more configurable raid
0 or spanning array and it has all the drawbacks of these.

John