Re: MythTV storage

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Monday 17 September 2007 03:39:26 pm Tom Metro wrote: 
> David Kramer wrote: 
> > Before I decide on one 750GB or so drive or two 500GB drives... 
> 
> I recently did some research into drives of this capacity, and I was 
> disappointed to see that my preferred vendor, Seagate, was getting 
> rather poor reliability reviews for the 750GB capacity. 
> 
> Pricewise, 500GB seems to be the sweet spot. 
> 
> > ...MythTV storage groups... If I can't use that to put 
> > content across two drives, then I'll get one big drive. 
> 
> There's always LVM and/or RAID. By as Dan said, storage groups should do 
> what you want (though I haven't tried them myself). 
> 
> My current MythTV drive array is built with some drives that were 
> intended for another application. Now that I'm looking to free up at 
> least a couple of those 320 GB drives to go back to their intended 
> purpose, I'm considering my options. 
> 
> I need to take another look and see if it is still not possible to grow 
> a RAID5 array (last time I tried it didn't work; supposedly fixed in 
> newer kernels). If so, then one option I was considering is a pair of 
> RAID1 mirrors, joined via LVM. Though with storage groups, it's now 
> possible to dispense with the added complication of LVM. (Setting up LVM 
> was really pretty simple, it does however add another layer that could 
> be problematic if a drive (array) fails.) 
> 
> Dan Ritter wrote: 
> > If you use SVN MythTV, you can. 
> 
> That's the down side. It hasn't made it into a release yet, and thus no 
> convenient packages. Although for those on Ubuntu, supposedly you can 
> get packaged nightly builds from the Mythbuntu[1] guys. 
> 
> 1. http://www.mythbuntu.org/