On 10/27/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip/> > Hopefully in the next few months myth will support storing to multiple > directories, which would remove the need for LVM or having to worry > about losing anything but what was on that drive.
excellent thread! :) i had to come back to the above statement because i've seen it mentioned before and am just looking for a little clarity. storing to multiple directories - what is meant by that? do you want to store all your Lost episodes in /myth/tv/Lost, and all of your SG-1 episodes in /myth/tv/SG-1? so you have subdirectories under /myth/tv. or do you mean breaking outthe directories into their own partitions - /dev/hdb1 = /myth/tv/Lost /dev/hdb2 = /myth/tv/SG-1 you can kind of do this now, can't you? without the subdirectories - /dev/hdb1 = /myth/tv /dev/hdb2 = /myth/video etc... or am i completely confusing the issue? i was using LVM on my FE/BE system and it worked great. i have newer hardware so i wasn't worried about loosing a drive and figured by the time i did i'd be ready for a newer setup. i had /, /cache, /myth on /dev/hda which was a 40GB drive. then i had a 300GB drive, /dev/hdb, which was part of the vg /myth. so my /myth dir spanned ~325GB. i've been thinking about setting the system up to use more drives for specific tasks. small 6GB drive for /cache, another small 10GB drive for /, /myth and a large 300GB drive for /myth/tv and another 300GB for /myth/video. if you need more space for tv you can always LVM /myth/tv and add a drive. but with this setup your less likely to loose data if one drive goes out (i think :) without having to worry about RAID. and you can always take your /myth/tv drive and mount it in another system to retrieve data. the only hiccup appears to be loosing your database, but that should be backed up anyway right? ;) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
