[mythtv-users] Is there a distributed filesystem available?

[Debabrata Banerjee]

The point would be to _not_ run RAID. I want to run a JBOD with a filesystem 
that doesn't go belly up with one bad disk, just loses the files that are on 
that disk. Mythtv recordings can just be re-recorded, the data isn't _that_ 
important. However coming home to a completely broken MythTV blows.. Such 
things are possible, thought I don't know if possible right now in _linux_


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Lichti" <tom at redpepperracing.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Is there a distributed filesystem available?


davatar at comcast.net wrote:
> Every FS I know of under linux needs to have RAID so it doesn't lose the 
> entire filesystem with a disk failure. I want to run a filesystem that may 
> lose some data from losing one disk but does not lose _all_ data. I know 
> of several commercial file systems that do this, but not for linux.
>
> Is this possible under linux? i.e. I want to run 3 disks for my recordings 
> directory. If I lose one, maybe I lose a handfull of recordings, I'll just 
> have to get them recorded again! If I run LVM spanning, goodbye all 
> files!.
>
>
> Is there a solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Debabrata
RAID 5, if all 3 drives are in one system, and roughly the same size
(within a few GB). You can lose a whole drive, without losing any data.
I just converted my myth system to RAID5 this past weekend.

Tom

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