[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 
>  
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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
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possibly but not a good idea

> 
>and LVM later?
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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?
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hardware raid is a waste of time - lvm isn't

David


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