[mythtv-users] Anyone using LVM2 w/ ext3 for video storage
David
myth at dgreaves.com
Fri Apr 1 16:37:15 UTC 2005
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
>Related to this, I just picked up a new mobo last night with a
>250gb sata drive. The mobo has hardware raid (promise) and
>
>
no it doesn't (promise!)
I'll dig up refs later - google for 'jeff garzik software raid'
>But, having said that, can I set
>this up and then add other drives to the Raid array
>
possibly but not a good idea
>
>and LVM later?
>
yes, if you set lvm up now
> I know having a 1 drive RAID
>array does absolutely nothing, but having LVM
>set up with only one drive allows me to add drives
>to this without having to erase all the data on that
>drive when I want to do LVM...I already did that
>dance once...
>
>
yes - excellent idea
>Is having a hardware RAID and LVM overkill?
>
>
hardware raid is a waste of time - lvm isn't
David
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