[mythtv-users] Better think twice before choosing an FS especially for LVM

Thomas Börkel thomas at boerkel.de
Tue Sep 20 11:42:58 UTC 2005


HI!

I have 2 drives: 160 GB + 120 GB. LVM with XFS.

If one of my drives starts failing (using SMART monitoring), I just add 
a new drive (probably 250 GB) and let LVM shuffle all blocks from the 
failing drive to the new drive.

If the new drive is bigger than the failing drive, I extend LVM and 
expand XFS.

So, what's the problem? Why do I need shrinking at all? I always can get 
a new HD with at least the size of the failing one.

Thomas



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