AW: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mounting point

David Morris mythtv at morrisonthenet.com
Thu Sep 22 12:34:52 UTC 2005


All of 'em are basically resizeable under LVM, however not all are 
shrinkable.

But ext2 isn't journaled, and ext3 is *horrible* at large file 
deletions.  I believe another poster to this list just discovered the 
reason for some of his problems was due to lengthy I/O caused by Myth 
deleting very large (16GB?) files while trying to record another show on 
his ext3 filesystem.

XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS handle deleting of large files much much better.  
With XFS it is nearly instant, no matter the size.  JFS is almost as 
fast.  ReiserFS I haven't tried yet.

David

Jochen Kühner wrote:

>You can also use ext2 or 3, they are both resizeable, too.
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>I use also lvm with 400gb and one 200gb drive, works great.
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>As mentioned by others, using Logical Volume Management is probably  
>your best bet.  You may also find life easier to use ReiserFS for the  
>filesystem on your newly created logical volume.  This will allow you  
>to resize the filesystem in the future, should you add a 3rd drive.
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>I'm currently running with 4 drives, giving me 450 Gigs of storage,  
>just a bunch of old drives I had kicking around.
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>I actually installed the Webmin package, to manage the LVM and set it  
>up.  Quick and easy.  Make sure if you're going to use ReiserFS, that  
>you install the Reiser utilities too.
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>Cheers.
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>On 21-Sep-05, at 10:31 AM, Azmat wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm not sure if this has been asked before or if its even possible,  
>>but is there any way to mount two HD's to a single mounting point  
>>in Linux?  I just added a second HD to my mythbox and was hoping  
>>there might be a way for /video to point to both of them.  Thanks.
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