[mythtv-users] Re-doing my backend

[David Frascone]

On Feb 9, 2008 7:43 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:

>
> I didn't say anything about raid. I'm just talking about having a
> relatively small disk dedicated to the OS only. It has some partitioning
> to separate things which should/must be saved from operational things
> which can be overwritten if a new OS version is installed. For a myth
> box, the database is the most important thing, plus copies of the setup
> so we don't have to fight to restore things...and that is actually not a
> very large list of files. And there is no advantage in 'raid'ing the OS
> disk.
>
> All recorded programs go on other disk(s). With storage groups, you can
> add storage disks basically at will. Since these are 'just' tv programs,
> I don't think that a raid array is warranted *for this sort of data*.
> Some people do use raid storage, but that presents its own problems.
>
>
Sorry, I meant to respond to Dan, who wrote:


>
>
> Yes. Don't use LVM -- it's overkill. You could lay it out like this:
>
> disk1, 40GB:
> p1  /boot   2G   ext2
> p2  /swap   2G   swap
> p3  /       20G  RAID-1 mirror
> p4  /extra  24G  ext3  store your database files here, use as
>                      temp space
>
> disk2, 500GB:
>
> p1  /       20G  RAID-1 mirror
> p2  /video0 480G myth storage
>
> For database performance, you want it on a disk separate from
> your video storage. But you want to back it up nightly to the
> root partition, so you can recover if needed. A quick cron
> script for that, run nightly as mythtv:
>
>
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