[mythtv-users] Should I use LVM on this new raid?

[John Drescher]

> In LVM you can create new PVs and extend the LVs onto them, and then
> expand the associated filesystems.
>
> But most FSs can't shrink, and hey, everyone?  Remember that if you
> have ridiculously massive filesystems, a tape drive to back them up
> will cost you about $6k.
>
I used to use reiserfs on everything because of that but xfs is much
faster at deletes so I am moving to xfs on a lot of my systems.

John