[mythtv-users] An LVM'd drive died! What do I do...

[Andrew Close]

On 10/28/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I had a similar concept, though slightly different, i think... My idea was to
> have a general mythtv recordings directory, under which all harddrives would
> be mounted (ie /mythrec/1 /mythrec/2 /mythrec/3 etc). Have one for new
> recordings. The rest would be for recordings flagged for "archiving" of
> sorts. So say you want to keep every episode of a favorite show you could
> flag it for archiving and it would place it onto one of the other directories
> (Drive). If a show is flagged for archiving before its recorded it could be
> recorded to one of these other directories automatically, if not it would go
> to the general recording directory and then later moved.
> The other option is to just have myth look at all the drives as a general
> recording space and let it fill drives as it see's fit. I wouldn't bother
> trying to split shows across drives, if one drive has 500megs that won't fit
> a single recordings, chalk it up to a minor loss and move on, there's a
> reason you've got more than one drive. Its not as compact as an LVM but at
> this point probably easier to set up for most people.
>
> Does anyone know if KnopMyth supports creating LVM's?

yessiree it does :)

http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=LvmHowTo