[mythtv-users] Storage Solution: Can ya help a brother out?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Mon Nov 24 05:29:10 UTC 2008


On Nov 23, 2008, at 9:14 PM, vamythguy wrote:

> Ok.  Let me start with - I don't get LVM + RAID.  The idea of being  
> able to throw differently sized disks in one side and having a  
> failure resistant dynamically extendable disk solution come-out the  
> other is great, but I don't get LVM + RAID.  Specifically, how it  
> works.  Why both?

Read more for your answer.

> Also, I love the idea of not being constained by the number of slots  
> in a box, so the extent to which that can be abstracted across a  
> protocol like iSCSI or AoE or eSATA would be great - especially  
> since performance is only marginally important to me.  So, how  
> would.does something like this work/get built?

There's your answer to the question above and the explanation above  
answers the question here. That was easy.



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