[mythtv-users] Wishlist feature for adding a hard drive

Kevin Hulse jedi at mishnet.org
Fri Oct 6 13:56:07 UTC 2006


On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:33:08PM +0300, Dag Nygren wrote:
> > "Todd Ignasiak" <ignasiak at gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
> > You're right, RAID5 is a great way to go, but  adding multiple
> > independent storage units has a few advantages:
> > 
> > - The drives don't need to be all the same size.   WIth the ever
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> > 
> > - Related to the above,  as the 'sweet spot' of disk capacity goes up,
> > I can just buy the new larger disk and slap it in, rather than
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> > 
> > - With single disks, I use all my storage.  I don't need have the
> > parity overhead, as in RAID5.   Of course, I don't get the data
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> > 
> > - Even when using RAID5, your capacity is not infinite.  You might
> > want to use this feature to point MythTV at two RAID arrays, or NAS
> > units.
> > 
> > 
> > Just my two cents..  I think multiple storage locations for MythTV is
> > a fantastic improvement.   I look forward to its inclusion in a future
> > version.
> 
> But Linux LVM is standard in all distis nowadays and give you
> all of the above without any extra code in Myth???

	LVM is still missing network transparency and the ability to 
treat subsets of the data in a modular and transportable fashion. I
can casually yank out one of my non-lvm drives and move it to another
machine or just shove it into a USB/firewire enclosure.


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