On Friday 14 October 2005 16:13, Brandon Beattie wrote: > > Before you go running off let me give you a warning. Although LVM > supports striping, adding/removing disks, shrinking and growing fs's, > they do _not_ all work together. If you stripe you can't add/remove > disks or change fs size. If you use xfs or jfs you can't shrink a > fs. After using Raid 0, 1, 5, LVM on 6 disks with XFS, JFS, and Reiser > I have settled with only LVM and ReiserFS (As much as I dislike Reiser > for performance downsides with many gig files compared to xfs and jfs). > In my experience, raid 5 is overkill for my desire to record TV shows. > Anything I want safe I backup to another computer completely. In > dealing with 6 drives I've found it very useful to shrink fs's at times, > and since ReiserFS (Not Reiser 4) is the only fs that supports shrinking > I use it. Striping would be nice, but adding/removing disks I've found > to be a much better feature. > > I've also found seagate drives to run 10%-30% faster for reading and > writing (reading and writing 100+ gig files) plus the 5yr warranty comes > in nice, since of 9 drives I've had in the last 3 years, half the Maxtor > 200GB drives have gone bad.
Thanks for the info! I'll keep all that in mind. I might just stick with a RAID 0 for my recording drive and leave backup to the LVM or plain filesystem or something... I'm looking at getting WD's w/ 3yr warranty's. I've had very good luck with them (and seagate as well) and they're about $40 less for 320gb than the seagates, which I can live with, since in 3 years time I plan on having 1TB drives ;-) (or something much larger than my current drives). _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
