[mythtv-users] Two-backends with two-frontends on one machine?

Billy Macdonald billymacdonald at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 23:13:39 UTC 2007


On 7/11/07, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > RAID 1&5 provide redundancy that I don't think your solutions
> > addresses.  Your solution seems to be solving more of a problem that
> > isn't there IMO.  I have 4 HDtuners, and 3 pvr250's.  All 7 tuners can
> > record to my LVM volume (not striped, 3 disks)
>
> Using multiple non raided drives in a single LVM with a single partition
> inside is no better than running raid 0 as if you loose a single disk you
> will most likely loose everything.
>
> John
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Oh, I know I don't have redundancy.  But it did seem important to the
original poster with his mirrored setup.  I actually have worse than
that as the probability of there being an issue increases as I add
disks.  I've debated going to raid5, but have decided that it's just
TV and I'd be OK if it were all lost, I'd just start over so to speak.


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