[mythtv] Is there a way to string together different hard drives for storage in MyThTV?

[Chris]

Seriously thinking about using the raid function in my Soyo KT 400
Dragon Ultra.  Planning three drives to use.  Know nothing about how
this works.  Apparently there is a software raid approach and a hardware
raid approach with the software having cpu overhead.  I am favoring the
hardware approach.  The 2 hard drives will have to hang on that no fly
zone above the cpu (well, on the left of it if the tower is standing,
this is how my tower is designed).  Do you think this will lead to a
signficant increase in heat for the cpu. It's an athlon xp 2400 and I
can leave it running for days with no hiccups.  I think I will add a 80
and 60 gig hd to my existing 100 g and raid them all into a single 240
hd raid system with plans on adding another hd in the future.  Which
configuration should I use.  Is network performance going to be
affected?  will hd performance be affected. I plan to export via nfs
this directory and how does linux recognize this drive hdx?  the raid
ports on my motherboard are on ide3 and ide4.  I assume it is going to
be a single hde?  The filesystem format is going to be ext3 as redhat
does not have support for xfs   or whatever that highperformance file
system is called.  How stable is the configuration.  Its only video data
but i'd rather not lose it but at the same time dont need it to be
mirrored.  How will Windows XP react to this cause I dualboot.  Thanks
for any pointers you might give me.



On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 14:20, Rick Warner wrote:
> On Sunday 29 December 2002 12:54 pm, Chris wrote:
> A raid solution should be very eay to set up.  You'll probably want to use 
> linear(append) mode for the raid unless the 2 drives are roughly equal in 
> size (you'd then use raid 0).  If you have 3 or more drives, you can use a 
> variety of modes.. for disks that vary greatly in size, you'll still want to 
> use the append mode.  If they're the same size(or close), you can either just 
> stripe them with raid 0 and have "3 x smallest piece" of storage space, or 
> use raid 5 and have "(3 - 1) x smallest piece" storage (for more than 3 
> drives, raid 5 follows (N -1)xsmallest where N is total # of drives). With 
> raid 5, your data can survive any ONE disk failing at a time.  The drive can 
> then be replaced and rebulit.
> 
> For details on how to do any of these solutions, feel free to post back.
> 
> > Other than a raid solution, I wonder if it is possible to span recording
> > accross various hard disks in Myth 0.7? Has anybody gotten a raid
> > solution working?  Thanks
> >
> >
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