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

[Chris]

I would appreciate some pointers.  Performance wise which is better LVM
or RAID?  Thanks

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 17:25, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> 
> Consider using LVM instead of RAID in this case. LVM allows you
> aribtrarily string together as many hard drives as you want without having
> to take down your system or worry about having to reformat to make a
> partition larger (IE add more disk). Works great in RedHat 7.3 and 8.0 (I
> suspect others too, but I have only used it in those two).
> 
> A good lvm HOWTO can be found here:
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
> 
> I'm also happy to help if that isn't clear enough for you. LVM on Linux is 
> actually surprisingly easy to use.
> 
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
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