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

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Sep 24 01:23:37 UTC 2007


On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 07:43:15PM -0500, Craig Huff wrote:
>    Even *this* believer in tape backup might be tempted to "just add
>    more disks and mirror it".

1) If it's a mirror, rm -rf /video will still erase it.

2) If you can't take it out of the building, it's not a backup.

http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/illustra-tips.html

and search down for "studs".  It's quite interesting.

Cheers,
- jra
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