<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Monday 15 June 2009 14:40:46 Criggie wrote:<br>
> Consider doing none of that.<br>
><br>
> Consider a RAID1 for your system drives, and all the other drives in a<br>
> mythtv storage group. Programs will be written to individual drives, and<br>
> if any one dies it will not take out the others.<br>
><br>
> If you raid5, then you loose a drive worth of storage, and remember its<br>
> only TV. Not your critical personal data.<br>
><br>
> I suggest jfs because it has predictable fsck/mount times. Something like<br>
> ext3 will someday jump at boot and demand a fsck taking hours and hours.<br>
><br>
> james@booths.net.nz wrote:<br>
> > Having just had a near-death experience with my non-RAID LVM system<br>
> > for Myth, I am about to convert everything to a RAID-5 setup (software<br>
> > RAID) with LVM on top. Before I go ahead does anyone have any<br>
> > recommendations on best choice of file system to use, given that it<br>
> > will be within LVM on RAID-5? I was going to go with XFS, but that<br>
> > cannot be shrunk, which (as I have found) can be very irritating when<br>
> > trying to reorganise your disks in an LVM. I know there are a bunch of<br>
> > hot new file systems out now, but I? wary of trying something new in<br>
> > an a setup like this.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I'm really not worried about TV recordings - it's my MASSIVE DVD library I am more concerned about. I find LVM really convenient because I can just keep adding on as the library grows (my RAID system will be 80% full from the start, so another 1.5TB drive coming up....)</p></body></html>