[mythtv-users] LVM / data questions

[Matt Boyd]

Hi mythtv people,
I've a big bucket of data that I'd like to store somewhere and the mythtv
mailing list is about the only place I frequent where this sort of thing
has been discussed.
Bascially, I've several terabytes of data across different usb drives. It's
copies of technical and other data I use with reasonable metadata so I can
work out what it is when I need it. I don't need to access it all regularly
but it's not exactly in a useful directory structure and there's too much
of it for me to even think about setting up something like that. I've been
using windows search and a few other resources to hunt down the data I need
when I need it which is not optimal but it does work.

The data isn't so important to me that I can afford to have an enterprise
level backup system for it.

Ideally, what I would be able to do would be to split the data across a
number of usb hard drives linked into a really redundant file system so
that if one drive went down I could put another in, recover what I could
from it and deal with (or not) any corrupted files when I noticed them. I'd
also like the filesystem to be easily readable if the drives were pulled
out and accessed individually.

This is about the level of redundancy I'd like from my mythtv video data as
well.

So maybe I'm looking for something that just disperses my data across
whatever pile of disks I give it access to. I don't need the intricacies of
a raid setup, but I need something more automated than just manually
working out how to split directories and index them across drives.

Does anyone have any thoughts? I've started to look at LVM but it doesn't
seem to have robustness that I want.

Thanks
Matt
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