My comment was in response to LVM over external USB devices, just to clarify.
I don't mean in terms of performance, more in terms of just the fact that it's an external drive. It seems like a bad idea to base a system around a removable drive that you can't remove without ruining the rest of the filesystem. It would be kind of like taking a floppy drive and gluing the disk into the drive and using it as permenant instead of removable storage. If there's no other way to add a device, I guess it's possible, but I would think it would make more sense financially to add a $20 raid card or similar and add a few more internal devices. The cost of an external drive over the cost of an internal drive is really just the USB/firewire interface, case, and power supply, so it seems like a waste to me... - Jeff On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:53:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no, but I was thinking about trying it with 4 drives > I did try using two WD 120 gig drives (8 MB buffer, connected via IDE) > buffers in a stripe set. > It actually did worse performance wise than a single WD 160 gig (also 8 MB > buffer). > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sunday, March 20, 2005 9:02 pm > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 160 gig WD - $40 > > > that sounds like a famously bad idea to me... > > > > > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:54:26 -0400, Jonathan Markevich > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anthony Vito wrote: > > > > > > >>Now I just need to find some places to mount all > > > >>these drives.... > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > >LVM is beautiful thing as well ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Which reminds me, has anyone tried to span a LVM volume to > > include an > > > external USB 2.0 drive? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > -- > > email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > -- email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
