[mythtv-users] Greater then 2 TB of storage with myth

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:03:39PM -0500, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote:
> I currently have a 3ware card with 8 160 gig drives in it giving me just
> over 1 TB. I am thinking about getting a new 12 port serial ATA card with
> 400 gig drives (cost different between 400 and 500 is crazy). Has anyone
> worked with this much storage with myth? I dont want to spend the money on
> this setup if I will not be able to use it.

Can you create a filesystem for myth to use that will span that much
storage space?  Probably.

Will you have administrative problems down the line caused by *having*
to have a filesystem that large?  Eventually.

Would it be a good idea if someone ginned up patches to permit Myth to
span multiple mount points with its stored video files?  Certainly.

:-)

I believe someone actually already is/has, though I don't recall
whether they're mainline or not.  But if you're considering 2TB (we're
at 600+GB ourselves), you might oughtta look into it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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