[mythtv-users] lvm setup (was Re: Partitioning Recommendations)

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Tue Jun 26 14:02:28 UTC 2007


On 6/26/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:59:40AM +0100, David Watkins wrote:
> > However you may not need to worry about LVM.  When mythtv 0.21 arrives
> > it supports multiple partitions for recordings.  You just add a
> > another drive and create a second recording location in mythtv-setup.
> > I'm running SVN at the moment just to try and do that (once I get
> > another drive).
>
> Could you expand on that?  Current SVN *does* know how to do multi-path
> recording already?  I'm just about to set up a new machine for my sis,
> and having been burned by a broken drive in an LVM set, I wouldn't mind
> avoiding it.
>

Yes.  You can set up storage groups containing multiple folders/mount points
and Myth will spread the recordings over them without needing to tie them
all together with LVM.

Kevin
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