[mythtv-users] OT: Filesystems for recordings

Brett Kosinski fancypantalons at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 18:55:51 UTC 2006


> With LVM you might be able to recover files on the remaining good
> drives(s) whereas this is a lot less likely with a RAID0 system. With
> a 2-drive RAID0 system a single drive failure would pretty much
> guarantee that about half of each file would be gone.


Doesn't that depend greatly on how LVM/RAID is configured?  Both can, AFAIK,
be used in stripped or straight concatenation mode, and it's striping
that'll kill you if you lose a drive.

The real answer in any case is BACKUP, BACKUP and BACKUP again :-)


Yes... backup. *cough* :)

Brett.
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